Family

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• Custody or visitation petitionA parent asking for custody of a child, or time to meet the child.
• Declarations of the bride, the bridegroom and the witnesses (Third Schedule, Special Marriage Act)The statutory declarations of the bride and bridegroom and the three witnesses, signed before the Marriage Officer.
• Divorce petition, contested (s.13 HMA)One spouse's petition for divorce on the grounds of section 13(1) (cruelty, desertion, adultery and others) or 13(1A), with the statements the Act asks for.
• Divorce settlement termsThe terms both spouses agree before a mutual-consent divorce.
• Domestic violence application (s.12 PWDV Act)A woman's application to the Magistrate for protection, residence and support.
• Guardianship petition (ss.7 and 10 GWA)Becoming the legal guardian of a minor, often to deal with the minor's share of property.
• Interim maintenance and litigation expenses (s.24 HMA)A spouse with no sufficient income asks for monthly maintenance and case expenses while an HMA case is pending.
• Joint affidavit of both spouses (mutual-consent divorce)The affidavit both spouses swear with the mutual-consent petition.
• Judicial separation petition (s.10 HMA)A decree that frees a spouse from living with the other without ending the marriage, on any ground for divorce under section 13(1).
• Maintenance application (s.144 BNSS)A wife's claim for monthly maintenance before the Magistrate or Family Court.
• Memorandum for registering an Anand Karaj (Anand Marriage Act)The couple's memorandum to the Registrar for entering an Anand Karaj in the register, with photo boxes, the witnesses and the Granthi's certificate.
• Mutual-consent divorce, first motion (s.13B(1) HMA)The joint petition both spouses file to start a mutual-consent divorce.
• Mutual-consent divorce, second motion (s.13B(2) HMA)The joint statement after the waiting period, asking for the divorce decree.
• Notice of intended marriage (s.5 Special Marriage Act)The notice both partners give the Marriage Officer before a court marriage.
• Nullity of marriage petition: void or voidable (ss.11 and 12 HMA)A petition to declare a marriage void (a living spouse, prohibited degrees, sapindas) or to annul a voidable one (impotence, mental disorder, force or fraud, pregnancy by another).
• Permission to sell or mortgage a minor's property (s.8(2) HMGA)A natural guardian asks the court's permission to sell, mortgage, exchange or long-lease a minor's share in land or a house, showing the need or the benefit and how the minor's money will be kept.
• Probate, or letters of administration with the will annexed (s.276 ISA)The executor's petition for probate of a will, or an heir's for letters of administration with the will annexed, with the schedule of assets and the witness's verification.
• Restitution of conjugal rights (s.9 HMA)Asking the court to direct a spouse who left without reason to return.
• Senior citizen maintenance (s.5 of the 2007 Act)A parent or senior citizen asking the Maintenance Tribunal (SDM) for support from children.
• Succession certificate (s.372 ISA)The court certificate to collect a deceased person's bank money, deposits and shares.
• Waiver of the six-month period (Amardeep Singh)Asking the court to skip the six-month wait after the first motion.

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