Bill to make divorce easy, women-friendly approved

The Union cabinet on Friday approved a set of key recommendations by a parliamentary panel to make divorce proceedings for unhappy couples easier and women-friendly.

The Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill, approved by the cabinet, will provide women with a share of their husband’s property if  they opt for divorce. It also seeks to give adopted children the same rights as those of biological children.
The bill was introduced in Rajya Sabha in August 2010, and later referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law and Justice.

The committee supported the bill, which sought to make “irretrievable breakdown of marriage” a new ground for grant of divorce, but opposed doing away with the prevailing waiting period before moving a joint motion for annulling marriage.

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