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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

Directions: In a certain society, there are two marriage groups, Red and Brown. No marriage is permitted within a group. On marriage, males become part of their wife's group: women remain in their own group. Children belong to the same group as their parents. Widowers and divorced males revert to the group of their birth. Marriage to more than one person at the same time and marriage to a direct descendant are forbidden. If widowers and divorced males retained the group they had upon marrying, which of the following would have been permissible?(Assume no previous marriages occurred)

  1. A woman marrying her dead sister's husband

  2. A woman marrying her divorced daughter's ex-husband

  3. A widower marrying his brother's daughter

  4. A woman marrying her mother's brother, who is a widower

  5. A divorced male marrying his ex-wife's divorced sister
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Under the hypothetical rule, widowers keep their married group instead of reverting to birth group. A woman's mother's brother is her uncle. If he's a widower, he would retain whatever group he acquired from his marriage. Since a woman stays in her birth group and the uncle is in a different group (his wife's), their marriage would be between different groups and thus permitted.

Multiple choice

Directions: In a certain society, there are two marriage groups, red and brown. No marriage is permitted within a group. On marriage, males become part of their wives groups; women remain in their own group. Children belong to the same group as their parents. Widowers and divorced males revert to the group of their birth. Marriage to more than one person at the same time and marriage to a direct descendant are forbidden A male born into the brown group may have

  1. An uncle in either group

  2. A brown daughter

  3. A brown son

  4. A son-in-law born into red group
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

In this marriage system, males alternate groups based on their spouse's group. A male born into brown will marry a red female (no intra-group marriage) and join the red group. His children are red (mother's group). His parents' generation could include both groups through marriage alternation. Through the generational alternation pattern, a brown male could indeed have uncles in both red and brown groups.

Multiple choice

Directions: In a certain society, there are two marriage groups, red and brown. No marriage is permitted within a group. On marriage, males become part of their wives groups; women remain in their own group. Children belong to the same group as their parents. Widowers and divorced males revert to the group of their birth. Marriage to more than one person at the same time and marriage to a direct descendant are forbidden A brown female could have had I. A grandfather born Red II. A grandmother born Red III Two grandfathers born Brown

  1. I only

  2. II only

  3. I, II and III

  4. I and II only
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

A brown female has brown parents (children belong to parents' group). Her father married her mother (brown), so he was born red and joined brown group. Her mother was born brown and remained brown. The father's father (her grandfather) was red (since father was born red, children same as parents). So a brown female CAN have a grandfather born Red - statement I is true. Her father's mother (grandmother) was born red (married into brown) - statement II is true. Can she have two grandfathers born brown? Both father's father and mother's father would need to be brown, but father's father was red - statement III is false.

Multiple choice

Directions: Read the following information and answer the question that follows.

In a certain society, there are two marriage groups; red and brown. No marriage is permitted within a group. After marriage, males become part of their wives' groups; women remain in their own group. Children belong to the same group as their parents. Widowers and divorced males revert to the group of their birth. Marriage to more than one person at the same time and marriage to a direct descendant are forbidden.

Which of the following is not permitted under the rules as stated?

  1. A brown male marrying his father's sister

  2. A red female marrying her mother's brother

  3. A widower marrying his wife's sister

  4. A widow marrying her divorced daughter's ex-husband
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Option A: A brown male marrying his father's sister - his father's sister would be brown (same group as father), so this is NOT permitted (marriage within group). Option B: A red female marrying her mother's brother - her mother's brother would have the same group as her mother (red), so this would be marrying within the red group, which is NOT permitted. Option C: A widower marrying his wife's sister - the widower reverts to his birth group, his wife's sister is in the wife's group, so they're in different groups - this IS permitted. Option D: A widow marrying her divorced daughter's ex-husband - the daughter's ex-husband reverts to his birth group, which is different from the widow's group - this IS permitted. Option B is not permitted.

Multiple choice

A man whose wife is unfaithful to him

  1. Polygamy

  2. Cuckold

  3. Bigamy

  4. Monogamy
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

A cuckold is a man whose wife has been unfaithful to him. Polygamy is having multiple spouses, bigamy is marrying while already married, and monogamy is having only one spouse at a time.

Multiple choice

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.

Mrs. Sheela's daughter, who had love marriage, was very unhappy with her husband. When she turned to Mrs. Sheela for support, Mrs. Sheela replied, “I can't believe it. You had a love marriage!”

What is Mrs. Sheela's assumption, based on which, she has said the above statement?

  1. She believes that love marriages do not have any problems.

  2. Problems are faced only by those who have arranged marriages.

  3. Problems within a marriage must be solved by the spouses themselves.

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

Option (1) best answers Mrs. Sheela's assumption.

Multiple choice
Directions: In the following question, five statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.
A. It poses dilemmas and conflicts of varied types for individuals, families and the society.
B. This creates the problem of spinsterhood too with its own sociological repercussions.
C. The importance and topically of the problem of dowry today is to be assessed not because the number of the reported cases of burning brides is increasing but also because a good number of girls remain unmarried even after crossing the marriageable age due to their parents inability to pay dowry.
D. The dowry problem is also crucial because many girls are humiliated and harassed for not bringing adequate dowry to the satisfaction of their in-laws and husbands creating the crisis of their personality disorganization.
E. It compels many parents to use illegitimate methods in earning money and increases corruption in the society.

  1. DAECB

  2. DBEAC

  3. CDEBA

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

This is a very simple para-jumble. C begins the sequence as it introduces the subject-'dowry'. 'This' in B refers to the problem of dowry in C. Thus, we have CB link. B is to be followed by D as it also cites a problem on dowry and has 'also' in it. This CBD link is met only in option (4), hence, it is the answer.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is/are partner(s)?

  1. Members of HUF

  2. Burmese Buddhist husband and wife

  3. A minor and two majors

  4. Widow of deceased partner receiving annuity
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Option (1) is incorrect: Members of HUF cannot be partners as per Sections 5 and 6. Option (2) is incorrect: Burmese Buddhist husband and wife cannot be partners as per Sections 5 and 6. Option (3) is correct: A minor can be partner if the other partners are major in a running business. All others mentioned cannot be partners as per Sections 5 and 6. Option (4) is incorrect: Widow of deceased partner receiving annuity cannot be partner as per Sections 5 and 6.

Multiple choice

‘A’ dies leaving behind a son 'X’ and a married daughter Y. A suit filed by ‘A’, after his death, can be continued by

  1. ‘X’ alone as legal representative

  2. ‘Y’ alone as legal representative

  3. ‘X’, ‘Y’ and the husband of Y as legal representatives

  4. ‘X’ and ‘Y’ both as legal representatives
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

A suit filed by ‘A’, after his death, can be continued by 'X' and 'Y' both as legal representatives.

Multiple choice

A has sexual intercourse with his own wife aged about 14 years with her consent. A committed

  1. no offence

  2. rape

  3. Intercourse with own wife is not rape

  4. As there was consent, so A cannot be held guilty for rape
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Option (1) is incorrect: A has committed the offence of rape. Option (2) is correct: A man is said to commit rape who has sexual intercourse with a woman, with or without her consent, when she is under sixteen years of age. Option (3) is incorrect: Intercourse with a woman (being a wife) under sixteen years of age with or without her consent is an offence of rape. Option (4) is incorrect: Intercourse with a woman, with or without her consent, when she is under sixteen years of age is an offence of rape. 

Multiple choice

Under the Muslim law, marriage is regarded as a

  1. sacrament

  2. contract

  3. social need

  4. tradition
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Under Muslim personal law, marriage (Nikah) is considered a civil contract between parties requiring offer (ijab) and acceptance (qabul) with consideration (mahr), unlike Hindu marriage which is a sacrament. This contract-based nature makes dissolution relatively easier.

Multiple choice

It is a well-documented fact that for all teenage couples who marry, the marriages of those who do not have children in the first year of their marriage survive more than twice as long as the marriages of those teenage couples in which the wife does give birth within the first 12 months of marriage. Therefore, many divorces could be avoided if teenagers who marry were encouraged to seek counselling on birth control as soon as possible after marriage.

The evidence regarding teenage marriages supports the author's conclusion only if

  1. a significant number of wives in such marriages were not pregnant at the time of marriage

  2. the children born during the first year of marriage to those divorcing couples lived with the teenage couple

  3. the child born into such a marriage did not die at birth

  4. society actually has an interest determining whether or not people should be divorced if there are not children involved

  5. encouraging people to stay married when they do not plan to have any children is a good idea
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

(1) The main point of the passage is that pregnancy and a child put strain on a young marriage and so, such marriages would have a higher survival rate without the strain of children. It would seem, then, that encouraging such couples not to have children would help them stay married; but that will be possible only if they have not already committed themselves, so to speak, to having a child. If the wife is already pregnant at the time of marriage, the commitment has already been made; so the advice is too late.

Multiple choice

Under Section 20 of the Indian Succession Act, 1925, a husband on marriage

  1. acquires an interest in the wife’s property

  2. does not acquire an interest in the wife’s property

  3. becomes the trustee of the wife’s property

  4. becomes the guardian of the wife’s property
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Under Section 20 of the Indian Succession Act, 1925, no person shall by marriage acquire any interest in the property of the person whom he or she marries or become incapable of doing any act in respect of his or her own property which he or she could have done if unmarried.