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September 24, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi Digital evidence in matrimonial disputes has become increasingly important in modern divorce and family-law cases in India. WhatsApp messages, emails, social media posts, call records and other electronic communications may help establish allegations of cruelty, harassment, infidelity or other matrimonial misconduct, subject to the applicable rules […]
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September 23, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi A husband records a conversation with his wife without telling her. The wife does not know that the conversation is being recorded. She speaks openly, believing that she is having a private conversation with her husband. Some time later, the marriage breaks down and divorce proceedings […]
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September 17, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: August 2026 Hiring a private investigator for a divorce case in India is not, by itself, illegal. The important question is how the private investigator collects information and evidence. Public photographs, publicly available information and observations in accessible spaces may be legally obtained, while […]
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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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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, […]
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August 12, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: August 2026 This is one of the most distressing calls a father can make to a lawyer — his wife has left, taken their child, and he can’t get a straight answer about when, or whether, he’ll see them again. The instinct is almost […]
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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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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 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 […]
