Legal Battle Won by Husband (or his Relatives)

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife. A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. There are so many laws to protect women and such legal protection should be strictly implemented but misuse thereof cannot be ruled out. The Domestic Violence Act, Provisions of Section 498A of IPC, and other laws are being abused and misused not only to keep the husband in a problem but also to arm-twist the in-laws. Many innocents are being dragged into court unscrupulously by their daughter-in-law and their families under the allegations of dowry demand, harassment, misappropriation of dowry articles, etc. Laws that are otherwise in favour of the distressed wife when are sought to be misused by declaring completely incorrect facts and also by suppressing the material aspect, the courts while awarding the maintenance in favour of the wife should take into consideration the separate income and means of the wife. Maintenance is to be fixed based on actual earnings of a person and not based on his being able-bodied person. Likewise, adjustment is the underlying principle of matrimony and petty squabbles cannot be taken as amounting to cruelty in any event, to seek a decree of divorce, even though the rising rate of divorce is a reality. In In many cases, husbands are victims of cruelty, desertion and other matrimonial offences and they suffered harassment, mental torture, mental agony as well as financial losses due to conduct their wives. Even in the ever-increasing disputes in the matrimonies the worse sufferers are children because a couple may get divorced but parents should not be separated. This book is not an attempt to advocate that women are not victims but the legal protection provided them not to be misused in any manner. The present book LEGAL BATTLE WON BY HUSBAND (OR HIS RELATIVES) covers Key Cases of the Supreme Court of India and All High Courts in favour of the husband or his relatives. A thorough search of the law has been made and present work contains 2000 catch-notes of more than 1500 judgments/orders on the subject. Equivalent citations of all leading journals have been systematically arranged under each catch-note and every effort has been taken to give a lucid exposition of the law. The main approach and structure of the book have been retained in the Second Edition, however, with the addition of more case laws and citations of law journals have completely revised the book.