Divorce does not automatically complete every legal step connected with a person’s estate. After a mutual divorce, former spouses may still remain connected through wills, nominations, bank records, investment accounts, insurance policies, provident-fund records, property documents and succession arrangements. A...
Insurance policies are often overlooked while preparing a mutual-divorce settlement. A spouse may have a life-insurance policy naming the other spouse as nominee, a joint health-insurance policy, an employer-linked insurance benefit, or a policy on which one spouse pays premiums...
A mutual-divorce settlement is intended to record the terms on which spouses have agreed to end their matrimonial relationship. The settlement may cover alimony, maintenance, child expenses, property, home loans, stridhan, personal belongings, pending proceedings and other financial claims. Problems...
Mutual divorce is based on continuing consent. This becomes particularly important when spouses have filed the first motion but later reconsider reconciliation before the second motion. A spouse may ask whether the couple can resume their marriage, whether the divorce...
Interfaith couples in Pune can obtain a divorce by mutual consent, but the correct legal route depends first on the statute governing the marriage. The fact that the spouses belong to different religions does not by itself determine the divorce...
