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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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August 26, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: August 2026 Quick question: do you know your district has an officer whose entire job is preventing dowry-related harm? Most people don’t. We’ve been practising matrimonial law for years and we still meet clients — educated, resourceful, otherwise well-informed people — who’ve never heard […]
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August 18, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: August 2026 Two weeks ago, most people would’ve told you the answer was a flat no. Section 498A is about husbands and wives — that’s what the section says, that’s how it’s always been read, end of story. The Supreme Court just changed that […]
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August 6, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: August 2026 I’ve had more than one client sit across from me, visibly shaken, asking some version of the same question: “Can they really put that in front of a judge?” It usually comes up when a spouse threatens — or has already gone […]
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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 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 […]
