In a small but not insignificant victory for the scores of Indian women used and abandoned by NRI men, a judge in India has handed down an ex-parte judgment against an East London school teacher accused of spousal abandonment and dowry abuse. Judge Pranesh Kumar Pran, sitting at the family court in Indore in Madhya […]
home rights include the right to live in the family home and not be made to leave the matrimonial home, unless there is an occupation order stating that you must leave. An occupation order is an order which sets out who can live in the family home, or who can enter which parts of the family home.
According to a landmark judgement by the Supreme Court an estranged daughter-in-law has the right to live in her in-laws’ home and can therefore not be thrown out by her husband or his family. A three-judge bench judgement of Justices Ashok Bhushan, R. Subhash Reddy and M.R. Shah overrides a two-judge verdict in S.R. Batra […]