HC denies divorce citing 58-year marriage
Jaipur, Feb. 15 -- The Rajasthan high court's Jaipur bench has refused to dissolve a 58-year-old marriage, holding that "trivial irritations, quarrels and normal wear and tear of married life" cannot amount to cruelty sufficient to grant divorce.
A division bench comprising justices Anil Kumar Upman and Sudesh Bansal delivered the ruling on Friday, upholding a 2019 order of the family court in Bharatpur that had dismissed the husband's divorce petition.
The court observed that minor disagreements and property disputes within a family do not justify breaking a long-standing marriage, particularly at advanced age.
"Ordinarily, trivial irritation, quarrels and normal wear and tear of married life, which ordinarily happens in day-to-day life in...
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