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September 10, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: September 2026 We had a client sit across from us a few months ago, mid-mediation, asking a question we hear more often than you’d think: Can you back out of a mediation settlement after signing it? It’s a fair question. Mediation is often presented […]
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September 9, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: August 2026 The Uniform Civil Code stopped being a hypothetical constitutional aspiration a while ago — it’s now operating, real law in three Indian states, with a fourth having formally taken the step this year. Most of the public conversation around this has focused […]
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September 8, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: August 2026 The marital rape exception in India remains one of the most significant unresolved constitutional questions in Indian family and criminal law. The Supreme Court is considering whether the legal exception for sexual intercourse between a husband and his adult wife should continue, […]
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September 7, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: September 2026 Most conversations about the Domestic Violence Act focus on protection orders and the right to stay in the shared household — genuinely important remedies, but not the only ones available. There’s a separate, often underused provision that can result in real, substantial […]
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September 4, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: August 2026 We hear a version of this misunderstanding constantly, from both sides of the same problem. A wife assumes that because she’s lived in a house for years — even one belonging to her mother-in-law, or her husband’s sister — the “shared household” […]
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September 3, 2026
Digital Evidence in Divorce Cases: Complete 2026 Guide for Delhi Courts — WhatsApp, Social Media & AI-Generated Content Explained Introduction: When Your Phone Becomes Your Best Lawyer Your spouse’s Instagram story. A WhatsApp message from three years ago. A screenshot of their dating app. A voice recording of an argument. These aren’t just memories anymore—they’re […]
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September 2, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: September 2026 If you’re going through mediation as part of your divorce, or thinking about it, something happened quietly last week that’s worth understanding, because it genuinely changes how much your settlement is actually worth once you’ve signed it. On August 27, 2026, the […]
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September 1, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: September 2026 We want to be upfront about something before we get into this: the ruling we’re discussing today wasn’t a matrimonial case. It involved a property dispute and allegations of forgery, nothing to do with 498A or a marriage at all. But the […]
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August 31, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: August 2026 Here’s a scenario that sounds almost too strange to be real, except it happened, and it happened recently enough that it’s worth understanding in detail. A man marries a second time while still legally married to his first wife, having falsely declared […]
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August 27, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: August 2026 If you’ve been in a maintenance dispute recently, you’ve probably felt like the entire conversation revolves around one number: what you earn. Family Courts sometimes fall into that same trap — treating the husband’s income as practically the only variable that matters, […]