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September 25, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi Hindu marriage proof is often disputed in matrimonial cases. A voter list, ration card, or other government document naming someone as a spouse does not by itself conclusively establish that a valid Hindu marriage took place. The Patna High Court recently considered this issue and examined […]
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September 21, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: August 2026 A notarized divorce agreement in India does not legally dissolve a Hindu marriage. A notary’s stamp cannot replace the court decree required to legally end a marriage. A man spent over twenty years believing he was legally married. He had a court […]
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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 14, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: August 2026 This is a question we get asked quietly, often almost apologetically — men assume the law simply doesn’t work this way, or worry about how it will look to raise it. The honest answer is that Indian maintenance law is more gender-neutral […]
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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 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 21, 2026
By Advocate Karan Dua | Vintage Litigation, New Delhi | Published: July 2026 This is, without question, the most practical question a husband in a mutual consent divorce needs answered — and it is almost always answered vaguely or not at all. Every article about maintenance covers how courts calculate it in contested cases. That […]
