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Family and Marriage Law

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Prepare for legal studies with practice questions on family and marriage laws, including the Hindu Marriage Act, dower in Muslim law, and divorce procedures. These questions cover custody, adoption, and domestic violence regulations. They are highly useful for law students and competitive legal exams.

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Family and Marriage Law Questions

Multiple choice

Which of the following is not grounds for dissolution of a Muslim marriage under the dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act 1939?

  1. Whereabouts of the husband are not known for four years

  2. Option of puberty

  3. Non-maintenance of the wife by the husband for two years

  4. Non-payment of mahr
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Mahr is a mandatory paymeny in the form of money or possessions paid by the groom to the bride at the time of marriage. Hence it is not a ground of divorce under Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act,1939.  

Multiple choice

In Modern Hindu law, marriage has become

  1. monogamous

  2. an indissoluble union

  3. a sacramental union

  4. a contract
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

In Modern Hindu Law, marriage is a civil contract. It can be dissolved. Two persons cannot be forced to live together.

Multiple choice

A married male can adopt

(I) only with his wife’s consent (II) only with his wife’s consent, when she is living with him (III) if he has more than one wife, consent of all the wives is necessary (IV) if marriage is void, the wife’s consent is not necessary (V) in the case of voidable marriage, the wife’s consent is necessary

  1. (I), (III), (IV) and (V)

  2. (II), (III), (IV) and (V)

  3. (I), (IV) and (V)

  4. (II), (III) and (IV)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

If a married male has a wife living, he shall not adopt except with the consent of his wife whether she is living with him or not. If a married male has more than one wife living at the time of adoption, the consent of all the wives is necessary. Marriage here means a valid marriage and voidable marriage not declared to be void.

Multiple choice

What does the term 'Bigamy' mean?

  1. Marrying again while already married

  2. Sexual intercourse outside wedlock

  3. Insulting the modesty of woman

  4. Outraging the modesty of woman

  5. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

During a subsisting of a valid marriage, a man or woman marries again is known as an offence of bigamy which is punishable under Indian Penal Code.

Multiple choice

X transfers Rs. 5000 to Y on condition that he shall marry with the consent of A, B and C. Y married without the consent of A, B and C but obtains their consent after the marriage. Y has

  1. fulfilled the condition

  2. not fulfilled the condition

  3. substantially complied with the condition

  4. none of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Though he has got the consent after the marriage but as per contract, he has got the money on the condition of permission to be taken before marriage. This condition has not been fulfilled. Thus (2) is the correct answer.

Multiple choice

Which of the following gifts is/are valid under Muslim law?

  1. Contingent gift

  2. Gift in future

  3. Conditional assignment of a life insurance policy

  4. All of the above

  5. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

If the donor attaches a condition to his gift, the condition is void and the gift takes effect unconditionally.

Multiple choice

Which of the following gifts is/are valid under Muslim law?

  1. By a pardanashin lady

  2. To an unborn child

  3. To a dead person

  4. All of the above

  5. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Under Muslim law, an act of making a gift should fulfil three conditions, a declaration by donor, acceptance by the donee and delivery of possession by the donor and taking of it by the donee.

Multiple choice

Mark the incorrect statement in relation to delegated divorce.

  1. Delegation of the power of divorce is called tafweez.

  2. In form, it is divorce of the husband by the wife.

  3. In law, it operates as talak of the wife by the husband.

  4. Delegation of the power of divorce can be only permanent and not temporary.

  5. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Delegation of the power of divorce can be permanent or temporary.