Theme: Family & Marriage

Venereal Disease: If your husband has a venereal disease, you can go to the Court to file a case of divorce against your husband with the assistance of a lawyer.

Leprosy: You cannot go to Court anymore to ask for divorce if your husband has leprosy, as it is a curable disease and Courts have stopped recognizing leprosy as a reason for divorce.

If your wife has filed a case against you saying that you are impotent, and if this is untrue, you can deny these allegations by going to Court with the assistance of a lawyer. Even if you are impotent, under the law, you have every right to file an application asking for time (one year) to prove to the Court that you have ceased to be impotent.

Yes, you can file a case in Court for divorce for cruelty, if your husband has not been treating you properly. Cruelty is human conduct or human behaviour which causes harassment in the mind of the spouse. Some instances of cruelty by which you can go to Court are given here.

No you cannot divorce your wife this way.

In 2017, Courts viewed talaq al- ba’in or triple talaq as a form of divorce which is no longer valid and one which cannot be practiced by husbands in India.

In this type of divorce, you can divorce your wife with three pronouncements of divorce at the same sitting. The effect of Triple Talaq is that the marriage comes to an immediate end once it is pronounced.

This form of divorce, left no room for the husband to change his mind nor did it give the woman any say in the way her own marriage ends.

For example, Arshaf says “Talaq, Talaq, Talaq” while looking at his wife one afternoon. Instantly, the marriage and marital obligations comes to an end. There would only be certain legal obligations between them which would remain, such as the husband or wife cannot inherit money or property from each other.

As of today, such divorces are illegal under the law and even if you do it, you would not be divorced from your wife.

You can say talaq and divorce your wife without waiting for the tuhr period if your wife is past her menstrual age.

Talaq is divorce under Islam. Each School of Muslim law has a different approach to ending a marriage.

For example, the practice followed by the Ithna Ashari School is that they have to orally say the word talaq in front of two Muslim males who would be witnesses to the divorce and they have to say a certain set of words to end the marriage.