Kusum: Family Law Lectures - Family Law I

Salient Features:-
With expansive coverage and exhaustive analysis, the content and volume of material—both legislative and judicial have gone up since the previous editions

Covers varied aspects on the subject including marriage, maintenance, division of matrimonial property, gender justice, guardianship, child welfare, and domestic as well as inter country adoption, as developed by the Supreme Court and various High Courts

The author has discussed major recent judgments of the Supreme Court on such contemporary concerns as the status of live-in relationships and of children born of such relationships.

The book also provides insights into contemporary matrimonial issues that have emerged as a result of the development of new perceptions of rights and duties, as well as alternative methods for matrimonial dispute settlement.

Notable features of this edition are :
1. a list of statutory provisions discussed in particular chapters,
2. the full text of The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006, The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, and The Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2010,
3. a digest of major cases, a list of model questions

Standard Reference for:-
Law students, Professors, Lawyers, Researchers, Jurists, Scholars of Gender Studies, Child Rights and Sociology, Social Science Libraries and the common man

CHAPTER 1
MARRIAGE
CHAPTER 2
MATRIMONIAL RELIEFS
(A) Divorce
(B) Judicial Separation
(C) Restitution of Conjugal Rights
CHAPTER 3
GROUNDS FOR MATRIMONIAL RELIEFS
(A) Adultery
(B) Cruelty
(C) Desertion
(D) Conversion
(E) Fraud
(F) Bigamy
(G) Impotency
(H) Mental Illness/Abnormality
(I) Physical Diseases: Leprosy And Venereal Disease
(J) Non-resumption of Cohabitation After Decree of Separation or Restitution
(K) Pre-Marriage Pregnancy of wife
(L) Additional Grounds Available to wife
(M) Divorce By Mutual Consent
(N) Irretrievable Breakdown of Marriage
(O) Other Grounds for Matrimonial Relief
CHAPTER 4
BARS TO MATRIMONIAL RELIEFS
CHAPTER 5
MAINTENANCE
CHAPTER 6
DIVISION OF MATRIMONIAL PROPERTY/
HOME AND RIGHT OF RESIDENCE
CHAPTER 7
GUARDIANSHIP AND CUSTODY
CHAPTER 8
ADOPTION
(A) Personal Laws
(B) Inter Country Adoption
CHAPTER 9
SELECTED TOPICS ON MUSLIM LAW
(A) Nikah (Marriage)
(B) Restitution of Conjugal Rights
(C) Talaq (Divorce)
(D) Iddat
(E) Acknowledgement of Paternity 370
(F) Mahr (Dower)
CHAPTER 10
MISCELLANEOUS
(A) Conversion and Bigamous Marriages
(B) Legitimation of Children of Void and Voidable Marriage
(C) Repudiation of Marriage or Option of Puberty
(D) Kinds of Guardians
(E) Factum Valet
(F) Customary Law
(G) Foreign Marriage Act, 1969
(H) Recognition of Foreign Divorce Decrees
CHAPTER 11
MATRIMONIAL DISPUTE SETTLEMENT:
ALTERNATIVE METHODS, PROCEDURES AND FORUMS
APPENDICES (If space allow incorporate all text as below otherwise just mention Appendices)
APP. I DIGEST OF SELECTED CASES
APP. II MODEL QUESTIONS
APP. III LIST OF STATUTES
APP. IV THE HINDU MARRIAGE ACT, 1955
APP. V THE HINDU ADOPTIONS AND MAINTENANCE ACT, 1956
APP. VI THE HINDU WIDOWS’ RE-MARRIAGE ACT, 1856
APP. VII THE HINDU WIDOWS’ RE-MARRIAGE (REPEAL) ACT, 1983
APP. VIII THE HINDU MINORITY AND GUARDIANSHIP ACT, 1956
APP. IX THE SPECIAL MARRIAGE ACT, 1954
APP. X THE FOREIGN MARRIAGE ACT, 1969
APP. XI THE INDIAN CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE ACT, 1872
APP. XII THE [* * *] DIVORCE ACT, 1869
APP. XIII THE PARSI MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE ACT, 1936
APP. XIV THE DISSOLUTION OF MUSLIM MARRIAGE ACT, 1939
APP. XV THE MUSLIM PERSONAL LAW (SHARIAT) APPLICATION
APP. XVI THE MUSLIM WOMEN (PROTECTION OF RIGHTS ON DIVORCE) ACT, 1986
APP. XVII THE GUARDIANS AND WARDS ACT, 1890
APP. XVIII THE FAMILY COURTS ACT, 1984
APP. XIX THE CONVERTS’ MARRIAGE DISSOLUTION ACT, 1866
APP. XX EXTRACTS FROM CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, 1973 (2 OF 1974)
APP. XXI EXTRACTS FROM INDIAN PENAL CODE, 1860 (45 OF (1860)
APP. XXII EXTRACTS FROM CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, 1908
APP. XXIII THE PROTECTION OF WOMEN FROM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACT, 2005
APP. XXIV THE MARRIAGE LAWS (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2010
APP. XXV THE PROHIBITION OF CHILD MARRIAGE ACT, 2006

Professor Kusum, MA, LLM, former Research Professor of the Indian Law Institute for over thirty years, has contributed several articles to the Indian Law Institute Journal as well as other journals and magazines apart from writing and co-authoring several books. In the year 1983, she was appointed to the Legal Aid Board to conduct reconciliation in matrimonial cases filed in district courts of Delhi. She is attached to the Delhi Legal Aid Board, and the National Commission for Women. She was awarded the UNDP Human Rights Fellowship in 1977 and was elected as a Founder Director Member of the International Association of Bioethics (Australia) in 1992.