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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

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. 

Multiple choice

Khula is a divorce in the form of

  1. sale

  2. purchase

  3. agreement

  4. coercion

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

Khula is a divorce with the consent and at the instance of wife.