India, Feb. 14 -- The Rajasthan high court has refused to dissolve the marriage of an elderly couple married for 58 years, saying trivial irritations and quarrels happen in all families and do not constitute cruelty for a divorce decree.

A bench of justices Anil Kumar Upman and Sudesh Bansal passed the verdict on Friday, upholding a Bharatpur family court's order. It noted the couple has three children, two sons and one daughter, who have also attained majority and got married. "Even if we presume that some family issues, pertaining to property dispute or mismatch of understanding, among the family members would have been cropped up, but same may not be accepted as sufficient to break the marriage of an old couple, who have admittedly en...