Family and Matrimonial

A quiet legislative change in 2025 may fundamentally alter how wills are enforced in India's most significant urban centres. The Repealing and Amending Act, 2025 marks a subtle but consequential shift in India's testamentary succession framework.

For nearly a century, Section 213 of the Indian Succession Act, 1925 ("Succession Act") mandated that no right under a will could be legally established unless a probate or letters of administration was obtained, i.e., courts served as gatekeepers to validate the authenticity of a will before beneficiaries could claim rights.

The Indian Succession Act, 1925 ("Act"), as it stands today, is India's primary law governing inheritance and succession for Christians, Parsis, Jews, and other persons not governed by Hindu or Muslims personal law.

In civil disputes, a decree is the formal adjudication by courts which conclusively determines the rights of parties pertaining to the issues involved in the suit.

In a recent judgement, the Supreme Court, in Neha Lal v. Abhishek Kumar , dealt with irretrievable breakdown of marriage and the Court's power under Article 142 of the Constitution of India to grant divorce without mutual consent.

In a significant ruling, the Hon'ble Supreme Court in Vibhor Garg vs. Neha, 2025 INSC 829, held that secretly recorded phone calls between spouses are admissible as evidence in divorce proceedings, thereby settling the law amidst conflicting judgments by various High Courts...

In civil disputes, a decree is the formal adjudication by courts which conclusively determines the rights of parties pertaining to the issues involved in the suit.

The intersection of women's education and maternal rights has found renewed judicial attention through a ruling by the Madhya Pradesh High Court...

Partition suits involving ancestral and joint family properties are among the most prolonged and emotionally charged civil disputes in India.