Madras High Court upholds a divorce granted on grounds of cruelty, holding that a wife's unjustified pressure on her husband — the only son of his parents — to set up a separate residence, combined with frequent, unexplained visits to her maternal home, amounted to cruelty.
Madras High Court sets aside a Family Court order that declined jurisdiction over a mutual-consent divorce petition, holding the petition ought to have been entertained where filed since the husband resided within those local limits.
Bombay High Court refuses to transfer an 11-year-old girl's custody from the neighbours who raised her since infancy back to her biological parents, holding the child's expressed preference and emotional stability could not be disregarded.
Bombay High Court sets aside a Pune Family Court order that handed a minor boy's interim custody to his father after the lower court sermonised on the "pious duties" of a wife, holding such stereotyped reasoning is regressive and has no place in a child-welfare determination.
Bombay High Court holds a 65-year-old father who receives both his own pension and his late wife's family pension is not a senior citizen "unable to maintain himself" under the Senior Citizens Act, and so cannot claim maintenance from his son.
Rajasthan High Court sets aside a Family Court order and grants divorce in a 22-year marriage, holding that the wife's denial of cohabitation since 2005 combined with a since-failed Section 498-A complaint against the husband amounted to cruelty.