Description

The instant edition of this classic work offers a different perspective to the controversial question of the Uniform Civil Code relating to marriages and also demonstrates that many of the existing statutory provisions relating to personal laws are unconstitutional as being gender unjust. Several landmark decisions of the apex court and of the High Courts which reaffirmed parity in maintenance available to divorced women and right of Christian couple to adopt a child under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2000 have been considered and commented on. New issues have been introduced including those dealing with talak, honour killings, fatwas and secular laws.

Key Features:

Voidability of child marriage
Conversion of one of the spouses
Punishment for honour killing
Maintenance to divorced Muslim wife
Uniform Civil Code