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  FAMILY ARRANGEMENT VS PARTITION DEED –; Partition deed is amid co sharers of property, it declares separate title of an individual in a specific asset and excludes him from asset not falling in his share. It’s a title deed. Family settlement does not create title, it does not create proper partition of property but it represent that what is the purpose of family and until final partition how the family will use the property and it may consist that which one wants to own specific part of the property. It is document of desires of a family. It does give any right to anybody but in long term if it is followed it provides right to estoppels The dissimilarity is that of payment of stamp duty and registration of the document recording partition. A family settlement has no need for registration and stamp duty, but partition deed requires registration and stamp duty both. . essentials of family settlements are’; (1) It can be oral as well as written and there is no need to r...

Remedies for a Married Women :- Divorce. A decree of divorce dissolving marriage, whether solemnized before or after the commencement of the Act, may be obtained by the husband or the wife on the grounds set out in s 13 of the Act. The grounds are:   (i) that the other spouse has committed adultery; or   (ii) treated the petitioner with cruelty; or   (iii) has deserted the petitioner for a period of two years; or   (iv) has ceased to be a Hindu by conversion to another religion; or   (v) has been incurable of unsound mind or suffering from mental disorder as set out and explained in that section; or   (vi) has been suffering from a virulent and incurable form of leprosy; or   (vii) has been suffering from venereal disease of a communicable form; or   (viii) has renounced the world by entering any religious order; or (ix) has not been heard of as being alive for a period of seven years or more. In addition to these grounds, ...