Dissolution of Muslim Marriage

In 2017 a Supreme Court judgment on triple talaq was on every news channel and in every housing-society WhatsApp group in Mumbai. Most people could repeat the headline and almost nobody could say what the law actually was before it, or what it is now. A Muslim marriage is a civil contract, and like any contract it can end in more than one way: by death, by the husband, by the wife, by agreement, or by a court. This topic teaches all five routes and the two statutes that now sit on top of the personal law.

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A Muslim marriage ends by death, by talaq (the husband), by khula or mubarat (agreement with the wife's consent), or by a court decree, which a wife can obtain on the grounds listed in section 2 of the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act 1939; instant triple talaq is now void and punishable under the 2019 Act.

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