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August 5, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: August 2026 A man sat in my office last year and told me he and his wife hadn’t lived under the same roof in nineteen years. No children together, no shared property left to fight over, both of them long since built separate lives. […]
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August 4, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: August 2026 A version of this question comes up in almost every consultation where a husband is building a cruelty or desertion case: “She put her career first — doesn’t that count against her?” In May 2026, the Supreme Court answered this more directly […]
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August 3, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: Aug 2026 When both of you have already decided, waiting eighteen months for a piece of paper to catch up feels absurd. That’s the frustration I hear in almost every mutual divorce consultation. The hard part is done — the difficult conversations, the settlement, […]
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July 31, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: July 2026 A client once sat across my desk and asked me exactly one question: “Just tell me how to win.” She wasn’t interested in the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act. She wasn’t interested in case citations. She wanted her son back in her […]
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July 30, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: July 2026 It is one of the most common post-separation property disputes in Delhi matrimonial practice, and the question almost always arrives with a sense of frustration on both sides. The husband has moved out of his sister’s house. His wife is still there. […]
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July 29, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: July 2026 Here’s a scenario I see more often than you’d expect: a couple spends months negotiating a mutual divorce — alimony figures, who keeps the flat, custody schedule, all of it. They sign a detailed settlement agreement. They file the First Motion together. […]
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July 28, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: July 2026 A question I get almost every month, from both sides of the same problem: “We’re not married — can I still file a domestic violence case against my partner?” And, just as often, from the other side: “We were never married. Can […]
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July 27, 2026
Recovering Your Reputation After False Matrimonial Cases By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: July 2026 Winning a case is not the same as getting your life back. That distinction rarely comes up in legal advice, but it’s the single most important thing I tell clients who walk into my office […]
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July 24, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: July 2026 Two years ago, a live-in relationship in India was, legally speaking, a private matter. Courts recognised it, gave it some protection under the Domestic Violence Act, and largely left it alone otherwise. That has changed faster than most people realise. Uttarakhand became […]
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July 23, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: July 2026 If you’re in the middle of a custody dispute in Delhi, there’s a good chance the other side — or their lawyer — has already raised the idea of sending your child for a “psychological evaluation.” It sounds neutral, even scientific, almost […]
