Prenups in India? Government Mulls Option

[thesolar65]

NEW DELHI: The Women and Child Development Ministry will hold consultations with top lawyers and non-governmental organisations on the concept of pre-nuptial agreements in the national capital next week. The consultations, to be held on November 23, would be chaired by Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi. Among others, top lawyers like Indira Jaising and experts from the National Law School, Bangalore and the law faculty at the Delhi University will attend the meeting, sources said.

“An effort is being made to make it easier for women to walk out of a marriage... currently, it is not working out since in India, cases of divorce or separation take a long time to untangle,” a senior ministry official told Express.

A common feature in marriages in the West, especially among celebrities, pre-nuptial agreements are pacts couples enter into before they marry. Under such an agreement, a couple can even mutually agree to define responsibilities of each other after the wedding. Indian law does not recognise these pacts, rendering them useless. “The effort of the ministry will be to make it legally recognised in India,” the official added.

Another big advantage of entering into such an agreement is that neither the husband nor the wife can contest a demand for dissolution of marriage. Under the prevailing laws, dissolution of a marriage can take place either by mutual consent, wherein both parties agree to part ways or through contesting a divorce, which is both time-consuming and cumbersome.

Prenups in India? Government Mulls Option -The New Indian Express

@Aminroop @jbgt90 @anant_s @Rain Man (all sufferers, but will give peace to children) @Skull and Bones (you will be lucky if you get marry here) @SarthakGanguly @scorpionx (same as first four tagged) @ranjeet (your chance gone) @Abingdonboy (I think you are unmarried) @Guynextdoor2 (??) and other lucky and unlucky ones!!

 

[Skull and Bones]

I will obviously take this route, can't trust my net asset on women.

 

[Levina]

@Aminroop

Thanks for the tag.
IMO, pre nuptial agreement makes marriage sound like a contract. In case a couple makes such an agreement then despite their relationship turning sour they might continue being in the marriage only to avoid giving each other the compensation. It's weird.
But on other occasions such an agreement makes things easier for the couple.
Personally, I do not like such agreements. I do not need one.
If I ever walk out of this relationship(in his dreams!!! ), I would not be demanding anything from him other than asking him to pay for his child's education (only because he earns a lot more than me).

@scorpionx (same as first four tagged) @ranjeet (your chance gone) @Abingdonboy (I think you are unmarried) @Guynextdoor2 (??) and other lucky and unlucky ones!!

Only the first five tagged will receive notifications.
Re-tagging the rest.
@scorpionx @Abingdonboy @ranjeet @Guynextdoor2

 

[thesolar65]

Thanks for the tag.
(in his dreams!!! ),

It is not only about men or women taking away from men. It is also about incompatibility. I have seen both ways in my family and in both cases they have suffered for a long time. In case of my cousin, he took a girl (2nd of his parents choice) with him abroad to stay with him without married and the 1st girl fought the case here for more than 5 years without getting married. Because the boy didn't grant her divorce and the lingered the case.

Not in most, but in some cases Girls also want to go away without demanding anything. Times are changing. In another case another cousin of mine who is a lawyer and his wife a doctor (both high income group) parted ways mutually within one year (and theirs was love marriage!!)

I have seen this all around my neighborhood and you may call me paranoid (I think I am), but I cannot stop thinking about my children (no...my case is....may be in her dreams.....joking).

Lastly in coming days our next generation cannot run away from these thing. These are bound to happen and you will see many weird laws or things as you grow old or before you die.

 

[T90TankGuy]

Well i have put all of my homes in my wife's name. barring my ancestral home. so she can kick me out when ever she wants

 

[thesolar65]

@SRP @Dash @45'22' @Ryuzaki tagging odias to get their view point.

 

[T90TankGuy]

It is not only about men or women taking away from men. It is also about incompatibility. I have seen both ways in my family and in both cases they have suffered for a long time. In case of my cousin, he took a girl (2nd of his parents choice) with him abroad to stay with him without married and the 1st girl fought the case here for more than 5 years without getting married. Because the boy didn't grant her divorce and the lingered the case.

Not in most, but in some cases Girls also want to go away without demanding anything. Times are changing. In another case another cousin of mine who is a lawyer and his wife a doctor (both high income group) parted ways mutually within one year (and theirs was love marriage!!)

I have seen this all around my neighborhood and you may call me paranoid (I think I am), but I cannot stop thinking about my children (no...my case is....may be in her dreams.....joking).

Lastly in coming days our next generation cannot run away from these thing. These are bound to happen and you will see many weird laws or things as you grow old or before you die.

That's true , my own friend who is an industrialist abroad married his wife who was his college crush . They have 3 kids , now separated . headed for a divorce but she is not demanding anything . their divorce is amicable.

 

[Levina]

It is not only about men or women taking away from men. It is also about incompatibility. I have seen both ways in my family and in both cases they have suffered for a long time. In case of my cousin, he took a girl (2nd of his parents choice) with him abroad to stay with him without married and the 1st girl fought the case here for more than 5 years without getting married. Because the boy didn't grant her divorce and the lingered the case.

Not in most, but in some cases Girls also want to go away without demanding anything. Times are changing. In another case another cousin of mine who is a lawyer and his wife a doctor (both high income group) parted ways mutually within one year (and theirs was love marriage!!)

I have seen this all around my neighborhood and you may call me paranoid (I think I am), but I cannot stop thinking about my children (no...my case is....may be in her dreams.....joking).

Lastly in coming days our next generation cannot run away from these thing. These are bound to happen and you will see many weird laws or things as you grow old or before you die.

i didnt understand the example that you gave where the guy took a second girl abroad (without marriage?). Hows that possible? did he not have visa issues?

 

[thesolar65]

My cousin had to give away his duplex flat to his wife so that they could part "mutually"- theirs was a love marriage.
My best friend divorced her husband without asking for compensation- their's was love marriage too.
A few more such cases some of which were arranged marriages while others were love marriages.
Btw i didnt understand the example that you gave where the guy took a second girl abroad (without marriage?). Hows that possible? did he not have visa issues?

I also do not know, but the country is China.....may be citing some other relation. and they had a kid there and after formal marriage, they had another.

 

[Ryuzaki]

Good step,times are changing,cannnot trust anyone

 

[ranjeet]

NEW DELHI: The Women and Child Development Ministry will hold consultations with top lawyers and non-governmental organisations on the concept of pre-nuptial agreements in the national capital next week. The consultations, to be held on November 23, would be chaired by Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi. Among others, top lawyers like Indira Jaising and experts from the National Law School, Bangalore and the law faculty at the Delhi University will attend the meeting, sources said.

“An effort is being made to make it easier for women to walk out of a marriage... currently, it is not working out since in India, cases of divorce or separation take a long time to untangle,” a senior ministry official told Express.

A common feature in marriages in the West, especially among celebrities, pre-nuptial agreements are pacts couples enter into before they marry. Under such an agreement, a couple can even mutually agree to define responsibilities of each other after the wedding. Indian law does not recognise these pacts, rendering them useless. “The effort of the ministry will be to make it legally recognised in India,” the official added.

Another big advantage of entering into such an agreement is that neither the husband nor the wife can contest a demand for dissolution of marriage. Under the prevailing laws, dissolution of a marriage can take place either by mutual consent, wherein both parties agree to part ways or through contesting a divorce, which is both time-consuming and cumbersome.

Prenups in India? Government Mulls Option -The New Indian Express

@Aminroop @jbgt90 @anant_s @Rain Man (all sufferers, but will give peace to children) @Skull and Bones (you will be lucky if you get marry here) @SarthakGanguly @scorpionx (same as first four tagged) @ranjeet (your chance gone) @Abingdonboy (I think you are unmarried) @Guynextdoor2 (??) and other lucky and unlucky ones!!

@thesolar65 don't rub it in Sir.

Thanks for the tag.
IMO, pre nuptial agreement makes marriage sound like a contract. In case a couple makes such an agreement then despite their relationship turning sour they might continue being in the marriage only to avoid giving each other the compensation. It's weird.
But on other occasions such an agreement makes things easier for the couple.

Big up Feminism. Destroying Institution of marriage all around the world.

 

[AugenBlick]

 

[Levina]

Big up Feminism. Destroying Institution of marriage all around the world.

Phaleeez!
We are preserving the institution of marriage!!!
Without prenups men can easily walk out of marriages.

 

[ranjeet]

Phaleeez!
We are preserving the institution of marriage!!!
Without prenups men can easily walk out of marriages.

You are getting good at sarcasm

 

[Levina]

You are getting good at sarcasm

Achaaaaaa?
If so I should thank your mini skirt group.