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Law Commission of India issued Consultation Paper on family law reform: Details
Law Commission of India issued Consultation Paper on family law reform: Details, Highlights
The Law Commission has issued a Consultation Paper on family law reform. The paper suggested a range of provisions within all family laws, secular or personal and suggests a number of changes in the form of potential amendments and fresh enactments.
To reform family law, the paper urges the introduction of new grounds for 'no-fault' divorce accompanied by corresponding changes to the provisions on alimony and maintenance.
The paper also discussed changes to the provisions on the rights of differently-abled individuals within marriage, the thirty-day period for registration of marriages under Special Marriage Act, uncertainty, and inequality in the age of consent for marriage, compulsory registration of marriage and bigamy upon conversion.
The paper discussed a number issues such as polygamy, nikah halala, settlement of a Parsi wife’s property for benefit of children and the law on adultery but since they are presently being heard by the Supreme Court, the paper did not suggest any comprehensive changes at this stage
