Is Denying Your Spouse Intimacy Grounds for Divorce?

By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: August 2026 We get asked, carefully and often somewhat hesitantly, whether a marriage where physical intimacy has effectively ended — sometimes for years — gives either spouse a real legal ground to seek divorce. In June 2026, the Supreme Court answered this more directly […]
Irretrievable Breakdown of Marriage: Can You Get Divorced After Years of Separation?

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. […]
He Filed 80 Cases Against Her. The Supreme Court Quashed Every Single One.

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. […]
Wife Accepted the Settlement, Completed First Motion — Then Withdrew Consent and Filed a DV Case.

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 […]