Marriage Annulled

Married off at the age of just four months, a woman came out of a 20-year unwanted situation on Monday when a family court annulled her child marriage.

The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court has annulled the marriage of a young couple that could not consummate it due to the man's 'relative impotency', noting their agony of frustration cannot be ignored.

The Patna High Court has annulled the marriage of an Indian Army personnel who was kidnapped and made to enter into wedlock with a woman, at gunpoint, 10 years ago in Bihar.

A marriage cannot be "avoided" by claiming one spouse induced the other into wedlock with fraudulent statements about family or fortune, the Delhi High Court said, refusing to annul a love marriage.

The cake not only ruined her makeup, hair and dress, it also hit her confidence.

The law also bars transgender people from becoming adoptive parents and annuls marriages in which one person has changed gender.

Lawyers told AFP that several women have reported being dragged back into abusive marriages after Taliban commanders annulled their divorces.

A family court annulled the marriage of a 21-year-old woman, who was married off at the age of one and pressured for its consummation.

The Bombay High Court has refused to annul the marriage of a 33-year-old woman, who claimed that she was forced to marry the man and was physically assaulted and tortured by him since she was 14 years old.

The groom was dragged to the "mandap" and he wept through his wedding in a video from Bihar that went viral in December 2017. Vinod Kumar's wedding-at-gunpoint has now been annulled by a family court in Patna.

The Women and Child Development Ministry seeks to amend section 3 of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, under which a child marriage is only voidable at the option of the contracting parties.

Married off at the tender age of 6, Pintudevi suffered for 12 years before finally moving court to dissolve the child marriage.

An adult couple can be in a live-in relationship even if the man isn't 21 years, the legal age for marriage, the Supreme Court has ruled, telling 20-year-old Thushara that she was free to decide who she wanted to live with.

Married off at the tender age of 10 months, Urma Bishnoi had to tolerate the tortures of being in a child marriage for 18 years, facing threats when she resisted. On Tuesday, she eventually mustered her courage and moved court to annul the marriage.

A Singaporean couple have launched a legal challenge after authorities annulled their marriage because the husband underwent a sex change, a lawyer said Monday.

Married off at the age of just four months, a woman came out of a 20-year unwanted situation on Monday when a family court annulled her child marriage.

The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court has annulled the marriage of a young couple that could not consummate it due to the man's 'relative impotency', noting their agony of frustration cannot be ignored.

The Patna High Court has annulled the marriage of an Indian Army personnel who was kidnapped and made to enter into wedlock with a woman, at gunpoint, 10 years ago in Bihar.

A marriage cannot be "avoided" by claiming one spouse induced the other into wedlock with fraudulent statements about family or fortune, the Delhi High Court said, refusing to annul a love marriage.

The cake not only ruined her makeup, hair and dress, it also hit her confidence.

The law also bars transgender people from becoming adoptive parents and annuls marriages in which one person has changed gender.

Lawyers told AFP that several women have reported being dragged back into abusive marriages after Taliban commanders annulled their divorces.

A family court annulled the marriage of a 21-year-old woman, who was married off at the age of one and pressured for its consummation.

The Bombay High Court has refused to annul the marriage of a 33-year-old woman, who claimed that she was forced to marry the man and was physically assaulted and tortured by him since she was 14 years old.

The groom was dragged to the "mandap" and he wept through his wedding in a video from Bihar that went viral in December 2017. Vinod Kumar's wedding-at-gunpoint has now been annulled by a family court in Patna.

The Women and Child Development Ministry seeks to amend section 3 of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, under which a child marriage is only voidable at the option of the contracting parties.

Married off at the tender age of 6, Pintudevi suffered for 12 years before finally moving court to dissolve the child marriage.

An adult couple can be in a live-in relationship even if the man isn't 21 years, the legal age for marriage, the Supreme Court has ruled, telling 20-year-old Thushara that she was free to decide who she wanted to live with.

Married off at the tender age of 10 months, Urma Bishnoi had to tolerate the tortures of being in a child marriage for 18 years, facing threats when she resisted. On Tuesday, she eventually mustered her courage and moved court to annul the marriage.

A Singaporean couple have launched a legal challenge after authorities annulled their marriage because the husband underwent a sex change, a lawyer said Monday.