The Punjab & Haryana High Court has held that a husband's offer to bear his wife's travel expenses for court hearings is not an inflexible rule that automatically defeats her plea to transfer divorce proceedings closer to her residence, and ordered the case transferred to the Family Court at Sonepat.
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.
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 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.