Wife Divorces Husband

Smita Bharadwaj, who is fighting a divorce case against her actor husband Nitish Bharadwaj, has filed a 'darkhast' (application) in a family court demanding that his property be sold for recovery of Rs 10,000 per month to each daughter.

The Delhi High Court has held that findings of cruelty against a wife in divorce proceedings cannot be the basis to deny her maintenance by husband under the Domestic Violence Act.

Former Pakistan cricket team captain Shoaib Malik on Saturday announced his wedding to actress Sana Javed, "a few months" after separating from Indian tennis icon Sania Mirza.

The Supreme Court has stayed the divorce proceedings between an estranged couple after the wife sought her husband's cooperation to conceive through in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) process for which she wants his sperm.

Trivial irritations and loss of trust between married couples cannot be confused with mental cruelty, the Delhi High Court said on Monday as it refused to uphold a lower court order granting divorce on a husband's plea against his wife.

"People want wedding not marriage these days," said a user.

The withdrawal of consent by a wife for second motion for divorce by mutual consent pursuant to an MoU with husband cannot be termed as contempt of court, the Delhi High Court has said.

A marriage rests on mutual trust, respect and companionship, and constant rejection by a wife is a source of great mental agony for a husband, the Delhi High Court said, upholding divorce granted to a couple living separately since 2011.

Living with another woman during pendency of divorce proceedings after long separation cannot disentitle a husband from divorce on account of proven cruelty by wife, the Delhi High Court has said.

No law gives the right to a husband to beat and torture his wife, the Delhi High Court has held while granting divorce to a woman on the grounds of cruelty and desertion by the man.

A wife making false police complaint and the prospect of being summoned to a police station hanging over the husband like a "Damocles' sword" is cruelty, the Delhi High Court has said, while granting divorce to an estranged couple.

He lifted Chen off the floor and fled the courtroom with her on his back, leaving his wife screaming.

A man in Taiwan has filed for divorce after his wife demanded he pay her a fee each time they had sex.

One person wrote on the microblogging platform, "A marriage with no respect is a failed one right from the beginning".

A sessions court here has set aside a magisterial court order directing a husband to pay a monthly maintenance of Rs 15,000 to his wife, holding that the woman had not disclosed her true income.