Divorce, now made easy
PTI
NEW DELHI, JUNE 10
Seeking a divorce in case marriage goes bad will now become easier with the Government today approving a bill that seeks to amend two Acts governing marriages.
The amendment makes it possible for anyone to seek divorce by proving that there has been “irretrievable breakdown of marriage” and escape the delays and “harassment” caused because of one party not turning up in courts.
The Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill 2010 was approved by the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The Bill provides for amendment of the Hindu Marriage Act 1955 and the Special Marriage Act 1954, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni told reporters.
The Bill would provide safeguards to parties to marriage who file petition for grant of divorce by consent from the “harassment” in court if any of the party does not come to the court or willfully avoids the court to keep the divorce proceedings inconclusive, she said.
The amendment bill has been prepared on the recommendations of the Law Commission as well as the Supreme Court.
The new clause will be in addition to the existing grounds for divorce include adultery, cruelty, desertion, conversion to another religion, unsoundness of mind, virulent and incurable form of leprosy, venereal disease in a communicable form, renouncement of the world and not heard as being alive for a period of seven years.
