Divorce Law in India: Know Your Legal Rights

A couple can be traumatized after going through the experience of a divorce. What makes matters worse, is the fact that the long-drawn nature of divorce makes it a very costly affair in India more so if a spouse happens to contest the divorce. Even when there is a mutual consent to divorce the courts will not even consider their plea until and unless couples have been able to satisfactorily prove in a court of law that they have been mutually separated for at least a year.

In India, similar to the vast majority of personal matters, divorce rules and laws are related to religion. For each and every religious group there are separate divorce rules and laws that are applicable to each of those religious groups. Divorce amongst Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and Jains for example, is in accordance with the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Muslims by the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act, 1939, Parsis by the Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936 and Christians by the Indian Divorce Act, 1869. Likewise, Civil and inter-community marriages are in accordance with the Special Marriage Act, 1956. To get advice from best Divorce lawyers in India Contact us at 7604047602.