Live in relationship & Marriage | Best Divorce Lawyer in Delhi

Live in relationship & Marriage | Best Divorce Lawyer in Delhi
Latest news April 27, 2019 796
Live-in relationships & its preconditions to be treated as marriage : Merely spending weekends together or a one night stand would not make it a ‘domestic relationship’ u/s 2(f) of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act,2005.All live-in relationships will not amount to marriage. Live-in relationships in the nature of marriage under 2005 Act must fulfill the following conditions – (a) the couple must hold themselves out to society as being akin to spouses. (b) they must be of legal age to marry (c) they must be otherwise qualified to enter into a legal marriage, including being unmarried. (d) they must have voluntarily cohabited and held themselves out to the world as being akin to spouses for a significant period of time. See : D. Velusamy v. D. Patchaiammal, AIR 2011 SC 479.