Mumbai University Solved Question Papers
Family Law II
Previous Year Question Paper with Solution
BLS LLB 5 Years · Sem 7
Nov 2022 - 60/40 Examination
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Mumbai University Solved Question Papers
Family Law II
Previous Year Question Paper with Solution
BLS LLB 5 Years · Sem 7
Nov 2022 - 60/40 Examination
munotes.in
Mumbai
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The answers in this volume state the law as it stands today, not as it stood when the paper was set, and in this subject three amendments and two new codes do the work. The Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005 made a daughter a coparcener by birth, abolished survivorship and the pious obligation for later debts, and omitted Sections 23 and 24, so a remarried widow is no longer disqualified from inheriting; the Personal Laws (Amendment) Act, 2010 rewrote Section 8 of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act so that a married woman may adopt with her husband's consent, where before she could not adopt at all, and gave the father and mother an equal right to give a child in adoption; and the Personal Laws (Amendment) Act, 2019 removed leprosy as a ground of divorce and as a ground of separate maintenance. The older papers here were set before some of those changes and are answered on the law as amended, with the date of the change given. Where a question turns on the criminal law, the answers give the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 and name the section of the Indian Penal Code or the Criminal Procedure Code that each replaced, and they record that adultery ceased to be an offence in Joseph Shine in 2018 while remaining a ground of divorce.
The questions below are the paper as the University of Mumbai set it at the Nov 2022 - 60/40 examination, in the order it was set.
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Answer any SIX of the following in not more than two sentences 12 Marks
Answer
Under section 9 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, a decree may be obtained when the other spouse has, without reasonable excuse, withdrawn from the society of the petitioner, and the court is satisfied of the truth of the statements in the petition and that there is no legal ground why the application should not be granted.
The Explanation puts the burden of proving reasonable excuse on the person who has withdrawn.
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