Section 21-B: Special provision relating to trial and disposal of petitions under the Act (1) The trial of a petition under this Act, shall, do as far as is practicable consistently with the interests of justice in respect of the trial, be continued from day to day until its conclusion unless the...
Section 21-A: Power to transfer petitions in certain cases (1) Where— (a) a petition under this Act has been presented to a district court having jurisdiction by a party to a marriage praying for a decree for judicial separation under Section 10 or for a decree of divorce under Section 13, and (b)...
Section 21. Application of Act 5 of 1908 Subject to the other provisions contained in this Act and to such rules as the High Court may make in this behalf, all proceedings under this Act shall be regulated, as far as may be, by the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908.
Section: 20 Contents and verification of petitions (1) Every petition presented under this Act shall state as distinctly as the nature of the case permits the facts on which the claim to relief is founded, and except in a petition under Section 11, shall also state that there is no collusion...
Section 19: Court to which petition shall be presented (1) Every petition under this Act shall be presented to the district court within the local limits of whose ordinary original civil jurisdiction— (i) the marriage was solemnized, or (ii) the respondent, at the time of the presentation of the...
The section 18 Hindu Marriage Act provides punishment for solemnizing marriage in contravention of section 5 of the Hindu Marriage Act. Section 5 mandates few conditions for a valid marriage. Fulfillment of these conditions are mandatory. If marriage is solemnized in contravention of these...
Section 17: Punishment of bigamy Any marriage between two Hindus solemnized after the commencement of this Act is void if at the date of such marriage either party had a husband or wife living; and the provisions of Sections 494 and 495 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) shall apply accordingly.
Section 15: Divorced persons when may marry again When a marriage has been dissolved by a decree of divorce and either there is no right of appeal against the decree or, if there is such a right of appeal the time for appealing has expired without an appeal having been presented or an appeal has...
Section 16: Legitimacy of children of void and voidable marriages (1) Notwith-standing that a marriage is null and void under Section 11, any child of such marriage who would have been legitimate if the marriage had been valid, shall be legitimate, whether such child is born before or after the...
Section 14. No petition for divorce to be presented within one year of marriage (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, it shall not be competent for any court to entertain any petition for dissolution of a marriage by a decree of divorce, unless at the date of the presentation of the...
Section 13-B: Divorce by mutual consent (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act a petition for dissolution of marriage by a decree of divorce may be presented to the district court by both the parties to a marriage together, whether such marriage was solemnized before or after the commencement...
Section 13-A: Alternate relief in divorce proceedings In any proceeding under this Act, on a petition for dissolution of marriage by a decree of divorce, except in so far as the petition is founded on the grounds mentioned in clauses (ii), (vi) and (vii) of sub-section (1) of Section 13, the court...
Section 13: Divorce (1) Any marriage solemnized, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, may, on a petition presented by either the husband or the wife, be dissolved by a decree of divorce on the ground that the other party— (i) has, after the solemnization of the marriage, had...
Section 11: Void marriages Any marriage solemnized after the commencement of this Act shall be null and void and may, on a petition presented by either party thereto against the other party, be so declared by a decree of nullity if it contravenes any one of the conditions specified in clauses (i),...
Section 10: Judicial separation (1) Either party to a marriage, whether solemnized before or after the commencement of this Act, may present a petition praying for a decree for judicial separation on any of the grounds specified in sub-section (1) of Section 13, and in the case of a wife also on...