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June 25, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: June 2026 She came to me with a briefcase. Not because she was a lawyer. Because it was the only thing big enough to carry all the court notices. Eighty-plus of them. Filed in different courts, at different times, against her. Against her parents. […]
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June 24, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: June 2026 She left the matrimonial home with almost nothing. The gold her parents gave at the wedding. The jewellery from her in-laws at the time of marriage. The cash gifts from relatives. The earnings she had saved before and during the marriage. All […]
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June 23, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: June 2026 It is a scenario that has become distressingly familiar in Delhi’s matrimonial courts. Both sides negotiate. Both sides sign. Months of mediation produce a settlement — financial disputes resolved, property divided, stridhan returned, substantial payments made. The first motion for mutual consent […]
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June 22, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: June 2026 It is one of the most painful intersections in all of family law. A marriage has broken down. A custody dispute is under way. And layered on top of it — allegations that the child was sexually abused by one of the […]
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June 19, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: June 2026 It is one of the most difficult conversations a client can have with a lawyer. A marriage has broken down. The wife has filed for maintenance—for herself and for the child. The husband insists the child is not his. He asks whether […]
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June 17, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: June 2026 He didn’t call her for thirteen days. That, more than anything else in the case, is what put a man behind bars for three years. No proof of violence. No documented threats. Just an allegation that he stayed silent on the phone […]
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June 16, 2026
The Supreme Court’s June 2026 Answer By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: June 2026 You moved out—or your spouse did—years ago. There was no single dramatic incident, no FIR, no fight anyone could point to as “the reason.” You simply stopped living as husband and wife. No maintenance dispute. No […]
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June 10, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi Published: June 2026 You got divorced in the United States. Or the United Kingdom. Or Canada. The court proceedings are over. The decree is signed. You have moved on —perhaps remarried, perhaps finalising property, perhaps making plans for your children. And then someone tells you: your […]
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June 9, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi Published: June 2026 The FIR has been filed. Your name is on it — and so are your parents’, your mother’s, your sister’s. Nobody has been arrested yet. But your phone is buzzing with calls you don’t know how to answer. Your elderly parents are terrified. […]
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June 8, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi Published: June 2026 You sat through months of mediation. You made painful compromises. You agreed on alimony, on the flat, on where the children would live. You signed the settlement. Your spouse signed it too. Then — days before the second motion hearing — your spouse […]
