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BLS LLB 5 Years · Sem 7
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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.
Contents
The questions below are the paper as the University of Mumbai set it at the May 2012 examination, in the order it was set.
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The Paper as Set
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Duration 3 hours · Total marks 100 · 25 questions answered
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Q. 1)
Q. 1) Answer in not more than two sentences, all 10 20 Marks
a)What is the difference between nuclear family and extended family?[2]
Answer
A nuclear family is the smallest unit: husband, wife and their unmarried children, living in one household. An extended family adds to that nucleus other relatives who live and usually hold property with it, so that three or more generations, and often the brothers of one generation with their wives and children, are under one roof.
The differences that matter are four.
Size and generations. The nuclear family has two generations and ends when the children marry. The extended family is multi-generational and continues as members are born into it.
Property. In a nuclear family the property is separate, and the father may dispose of it freely. In the Hindu extended family the ancestral property is coparcenary, held in common, in which a son and, since the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005, a daughter takes an interest by birth.
Authority. A nuclear family is run by the earning couple. The joint family is run by the karta, the senior-most coparcener, who manages the property and represents the family.
Legal recognition. Hindu law knows the joint family as a legal unit, with a karta, coparceners, partition and survivorship. It knows the nuclear family only as a description; no statute defines it.
The two coexist. A family may live as a nuclear household in a city and still own coparcenary property in the village, and urbanisation has made that the common Indian arrangement.
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