HETAUDA, May 9 -- The District Court in Makwanpur had set a goal to settle 70 percent of its cases within this fiscal year. However, the target seems unachievable given the rising number of cases that are filed at the court.
The new civil and criminal codes, introduced on August 17, 2018, states that there should be a one-year reconciliation or cooling-off period if the wife or husband declines a divorce. This cooling period has contributed to the stockpiling of divorce cases at the court.
Among the cases that have been registered in the court this fiscal year, more than 33 percent are divorce related.
In the last fiscal year, there were only 149 pending cases of divorce, whereas 366 cases of divorce have already been registered within n...