Legal Battle Won by Husband (or his Relatives)
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far
happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife. A
successful marriage requires falling in love many times,
always with the same person. There are so many laws to
protect women and such legal protection should be strictly
implemented but misuse thereof cannot be ruled out. The
Domestic Violence Act, Provisions of Section 498A of IPC, and
other laws are being abused and misused not only to keep
the husband in a problem but also to arm-twist the in-laws. Many
innocents are being dragged into court unscrupulously by
their daughter-in-law and their families under the allegations of
dowry demand, harassment, misappropriation of dowry
articles, etc.
Laws that are otherwise in favour of the distressed
wife when are sought to be misused by declaring completely
incorrect facts and also by suppressing the material aspect,
the courts while awarding the maintenance in favour of the wife
should take into consideration the separate income and
means of the wife. Maintenance is to be fixed based on
actual earnings of a person and not based on his being
able-bodied person.
Likewise, adjustment is the underlying principle of
matrimony and petty squabbles cannot be taken as
amounting to cruelty in any event, to seek a decree of
divorce, even though the rising rate of divorce is a reality. In
In many cases, husbands are victims of cruelty, desertion and
other matrimonial offences and they suffered harassment,
mental torture, mental agony as well as financial losses due
to conduct their wives. Even in the ever-increasing
disputes in the matrimonies the worse sufferers are children
because a couple may get divorced but parents should not be
separated. This book is not an attempt to advocate that
women are not victims but the legal protection provided
them not to be misused in any manner.
The present book LEGAL BATTLE WON BY HUSBAND
(OR HIS RELATIVES) covers Key Cases of the Supreme Court of
India and All High Courts in favour of the husband or his
relatives. A thorough search of the law has been made and
present work contains 2000 catch-notes of more than 1500
judgments/orders on the subject. Equivalent citations of all
leading journals have been systematically arranged under
each catch-note and every effort has been taken to give
a lucid exposition of the law.
The main approach and structure of the book have
been retained in the Second Edition, however, with the
addition of more case laws and citations of law journals
have completely revised the book.