These notes are written for litigants and for younger members of the Bar. They explain procedure as it operates in the Delhi courts — the sequence of steps, the timelines that matter, and the points at which a matter is commonly lost. They are general information, not advice on any particular case.
Pleading Poverty in Maintenance Cases
Claiming joblessness rarely defeats maintenance: how Delhi courts impute income to able-bodied payers, the affidavit discipline that exposes suppression, and what each side must prove.
Read → 28 August 2026 · Matrimonial & FamilyWithdrawing Consent in a 13B Divorce
Consent must subsist until the decree. What happens when a spouse resiles between the first and second motion, the fate of part-performed settlements, and the remedies that remain.
Read → 28 August 2026 · Matrimonial & FamilyAnatomy of a Contested Divorce
From petition and interim applications through mediation, evidence and decree — how a contested divorce actually moves through a Delhi Family Court, and where cases spend their time.
Read → 28 August 2026 · Matrimonial & FamilyAppealing Family Court Orders
Section 19 of the Family Courts Act sends judgments to a Division Bench, maintenance orders by revision, and interlocutory orders mostly nowhere — mapping the appellate routes from Delhi's Family Courts.
Read → 27 August 2026 · Matrimonial & FamilyEvidence in DV Act Proceedings – Advocate Manish Jha
DV Act cases run before a Magistrate but decide civil reliefs on the balance of probabilities. How affidavits, the DIR, documents and cross-examination actually build the record.
Read → 27 August 2026 · Matrimonial & FamilyDV Act vs Section 85 BNS – Advocate Manish Jha
One is a civil protection regime before a Magistrate; the other a criminal prosecution punishable with imprisonment. How the DV Act and Section 85 BNS (old 498A IPC) differ, combine and settle.
Read → 27 August 2026 · Matrimonial & FamilyMaintenance of Adult Children – Advocate Manish Jha
Section 144 BNSS largely stops at majority, but HAMA and Section 26 HMA carry a parent's obligation further — especially for the unmarried daughter, whose claim includes marriage expenses.
Read → 27 August 2026 · Matrimonial & FamilyInterim vs Final Maintenance – Advocate Manish Jha
The interim order rests on affidavits and a prima facie view; the final order on evidence. What changes between the two stages of a Section 144 BNSS case, and the mistakes each side should avoid.
Read → 27 August 2026 · Matrimonial & FamilyMental Illness as a Divorce Ground – Advocate Manish Jha
Section 13(1)(iii) HMA requires more than a diagnosis: the disorder's kind and extent must make cohabitation unreasonable, proved by medical evidence. What succeeds, and what fails.
Read → 27 August 2026 · Matrimonial & FamilyDivorce under Muslim Law – Advocate Manish Jha
Talaq forms after the 2019 Act, khula and mubarat, and the wife's judicial grounds under the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act, 1939 — with the financial consequences of each route.
Read → 26 August 2026 · Matrimonial & FamilyAltering DV Orders: Section 25 – Advocate Manish Jha
Section 25 of the DV Act lets a Magistrate alter, modify or revoke protection and other orders on a recorded change in circumstances — on application, with reasons in writing. How the power works and what it is not.
Read → 26 August 2026 · Matrimonial & FamilyThe DIR in DV Cases – Advocate Manish Jha
The Domestic Incident Report is the DV Act's intake document — who prepares it, what Form I contains, and why the Supreme Court has held it is not a precondition for relief under Section 12.
Read →What Is Covered Here
The chamber writes on the areas in which it appears: criminal procedure under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, bail practice, matrimonial and family proceedings before the Delhi Family Courts, cheque dishonour and recovery, and proceedings before the NCLT and the Motor Accident Claims Tribunals. Notes on reported judgments of the Supreme Court of India and the High Court of Delhi are published with a link to the official text of the decision, so that a reader can verify the position rather than rely on a summary.
No article on this page identifies a client or discusses a pending matter conducted by the chamber. Where a statutory provision is cited, the section number is given so that a reader can verify it against the bare Act.