The petitioner was challenging the maintainability of the divorce proceedings initiated by her husband before the Family ...

New Delhi: Emphasising that courts must ground their reasoning in “social justice adjudication”, the Supreme Court Tuesday held that a Muslim woman, upon divorce, would be entitled to recovering money ...

The Supreme Court has ruled that a Muslim woman is entitled to the return from her divorced husband of money and gold items that were gifted by her parents or relatives at the time of the marriage ...

A divorced Muslim woman is entitled to reclaim from her husband the cash and gold/jewellery gifted to the couple by her father at the time of marriage, under the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on ...

The court said whether goods given to a Muslim woman by her father at the time of her marriage, or to the bridegroom, can by the application of law be returned to her given that the marriage has ended ...

Sri Lankan activists are at the center of a decades-long battle to reform the country’s Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act.

DIVORCE is separation of a husband and wife after the legal breakup of their marital union. In other words, it is legal termination of a marriage contract between a man and a woman. It has a negative ...

NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India's top judge was urged on Thursday to scrap a civil law that permits Muslim men to divorce their wives by simply stating their intention three times, a ...