India’s accession to the Hague Convention would resolve the issue of inter-country parental child removal.

The child born to the womb of a surrogate mother may not qualify her to the benefit of a birth certificate.

It is necessary that HMA and other personal laws are also brought in tandem with the proposed beneficial marriage registration law.

The home State would know it better. This step forward may be a start to a happy ending of a long sad tale.

THE ISSUE After India acceded to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1992, the Commission for Protection of Child...

The remedy to handle the public outcry is by implementing POCSO.

The best possible solution would be to become a signatory to the Hague Convention and enact a Indian International Child Abduction Law.

The Supreme Court in its latest judgment in Prateek Gupta  Vs. Shilpi Gupta  delivered on December 6, 2017, following the earlier Court...

The cruel abduction of children must find a clear and simple legislative solution forthwith.

It is very much possible to efficiently investigate and locate children in difficulty besides preventing future instances of abuse and kidn

Law must provide answers so that NRI does not take recourse to foreign laws which defeats the very purpose and meaning of our domestic laws

The Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) has proposed two amendments in existing statutory enactments relating to marriage and...

NRI marriages of Non-Hindus cannot remain in limbo. The dilemma of proving conversion before marrying voluntarily must be simplified.

With ever increasing population of Indians migrating and settling in foreign jurisdictions, the link with their home country does not severe

Recently, abduction of a toddler daughter by her father to the UAE amidst a custody battle at Delhi, led the CBI to file a charge-sheet...

The Convention vests the prerogative with the country of habitual residence to decide issues of wrongful removal or retention.

Marriages in vain abroad cannot  be remedied or dissolved in India if they are not within the ambit of Indian law.

The benefit of reform for juveniles under 16 ought not to be extended any more to those above 18 who enjoy crime and not suffer it.

Prevention is better than cure but redressal of issues arising out of broken or limping matrimonial relationship must be remedied too.

Lok and Rajya Sabha have approved 2021 amendments of Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 (JJ Act) for district...