Habeas corpus—Child custody—Scope of proceedings—Custody of child claimed by the mother—Father of child claiming to have given away the child in adoption—The adoption deed cannot be challenged in such proceedings—Custody of child entrusted to the natural mother till adjudication...
Custody of Child
in a case where due to dispute between the husband and wife, proceedings are pending between them, the CWC has no jurisdiction to direct visiting rights either to husband or wife. Under the provisions of Guardian and Wards Act...
Whether the family Court of Delhi has any jurisdiction when the parties and the minor Daughter are American?
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The custody of the minor girl child M would remain with the appellant until she attains the age of majority or the Court of competent jurisdiction, trying the issue of custody of the minor child, orders to the contrary,...
It will not be proper to be guided entirely by the fact that the appellant Sarita had removed the children from U.S.A. despite the order of the Court of that country. So also, in view of the facts and...
The modern theory of conflict of Laws recognises and, in any event, prefers the jurisdiction of the State which has the most intimate contact with the issues arising in the case. The spouses in this case had made England their...
“Guardian” means a person having the care of the person of a minor or of his property or of both his persons and property, and inter alia includes a natural guardian. Section 2 of the Act declares that the...
There is no dichotomy between the fitness of the father to be entrusted with the custody of his minor children and considerations of their welfare.
“For a boy so young in years, these and other expressions suggesting a deep rooted dislike for the father could arise only because of a constant hammering of negative feeling in him against his father”
Supreme Court in Dhanwanti Joshi v. Madhav Unde, (1998) 1 SCC 112, one of the questions that fell for consideration was whether the bringing away of a child to India by his mother contrary to an order of US...
Mrs. Elizabeth Dinshaw Versus Arvand M. Dinshaw and another- “It will be in the best interests of the minor child that he should go back with his mother to the United States of America and continue there as a ward of the...
