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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

Sharada Act deals with:

  1. widow remarriage

  2. child marriage

  3. intercaste marriage

  4. polygamy

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929, popularly known as the Sharada Act after its sponsor Harbilas Sharada, fixed the minimum age of marriage for girls at 14 and boys at 18. It deals with child marriage, not widow remarriage (Widow Remarriage Act 1856), intercaste marriage, or polygamy.

Multiple choice

No wife shall be entitled to receive maintenance from her husband under Sec. 125 of Code of Criminal Procedure if she

  1. has obtained a divorce from her husband and has not remarried

  2. is unable to maintain herself

  3. refused to live with her husband on the ground that he keeps a mistress

  4. is living in adultery
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Under CrPC Section 125(4), a wife is NOT entitled to maintenance if she refuses to live with her husband without sufficient cause, OR if she is living in adultery. Living in adultery is a complete bar to maintenance. Options (1), (2), and (3) describe situations where she WOULD be entitled to maintenance (divorced but not remarried, unable to maintain herself, or husband keeps mistress). Option (4) correctly states the legal bar.

Multiple choice

‘G’, a 17 years old girl, was married to ‘H’. ‘H’ during the subsistence of the said marriage entered into another marriage with ‘P’. The court may take cognizance for the offence of bigamy, if the complaint is brought by

  1. her father, mother, brother, sister, son or daughter or by her father’s or mother’s brother or sister

  2. any other person related to her by blood, marriage or adoption, with the leave of the court

  3. some other person on her behalf, with leave of court, but where there is a guardian appointed in her respect, then only after such guardian has been heard

  4. All of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Section 198 CrPC specifies who may file bigamy complaints: the wife, or her father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, or paternal relatives. All categories listed in options A, B, and C are valid complainants under different circumstances.

Multiple choice

'A' Prosecutes 'B' for adultery with 'C', wife of 'A'. 'B' contested by denying the allegation. 'B' was found guilty and convicted in said case. Subsequently, 'C' was prosecuted on charge of bigamy on allegations that she had married 'B' during subsistence of her marriage with 'A'. 'C' contested by denying that she was ever married to 'A'. In the case against 'C', the judgment in the first case against 'B' is

  1. relevant

  2. irrelevant

  3. binding

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

Under the Indian Evidence Act, a judgment in a previous criminal case is generally irrelevant in a subsequent case against a different party, unless it relates to public matters or specific exceptions not applicable here.

Multiple choice

The Hindu Succession Act bases its rule of succession on the Mitakshara principle of preference of heirs on the basis of proximity of relationship. Which of the following is also known as proximity of relationship?

  1. Rule of survivorship

  2. Rule of representation

  3. Rule of propinquity

  4. Per capita, per stripes rule

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

The Hindu Succession Act bases its rule of succession on the basic Mitakshara principle of propinquity (preference of heirs on the basis of proximity of relationship).

Multiple choice

Which of the following is/are not a valid mode of partition?

  1. Spoken words

  2. Renunciation by coparcener

  3. Conversion to another religion

  4. Death of coparcener

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

Death is not a mode of partition of joint family property under the Hindu law. Even after the death of a coparcener, his status can never severe from the joint family.

Multiple choice

Under Section 15(2), when a Hindu female dies intestate without leaving any son or daughter and leaves behind property inherited from her father or mother, such a property shall devolve upon which of the following?

  1. Husband

  2. Heirs of husband

  3. Heirs of father

  4. Heirs of mother

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

If a female dies without leaving any children, her property will go to the heirs of the father. This is in respect of property inherited by her from her father or mother.

Multiple choice

The marriage of ‘A’ and ‘B’ was performed in accordance with the requisite ceremonies and ‘C’, a son, was born out of the marriage. Thereafter, ‘B’ obtained a decree of annulment of marriage u/s 12 on the ground that her consent to the marriage was obtained by A’s fraud.

Give correct assertion to the facts.

  1. ‘C’ will not be deemed to be the legitimate child of ‘A’ and ‘B’.

  2. ‘C’ will be deemed to be the legitimate child of ‘A’ and ‘B’, but will not have a right to inherit property from 'A' and 'B'.

  3. ‘C’ will be deemed to be the legitimate child of ‘A’ and ‘B’ and will have a right to inherit from both ‘A’ and ‘B’.

  4. ‘C’ will be deemed to be the legitimate child of ‘A’ and ‘B’, but will inherit only from ‘A’.

  5. ‘C’ will be deemed to be the legitimate child of ‘A’ and ‘B’, but will inherit only from ‘B’.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

'A', the legitimate child, has a right to inherit the property from his father and mother. So, in the above case, 'C' will not inherit only from 'A', but from 'B' also.

Multiple choice

The parents of ‘A’ (husband) and ‘B’ (wife) agreed together that each would pay ‘A’ a sum of money after the marriage. B’s father failed to do so and ‘A’ sued his executors.

Will A succeed?

  1. ‘A’ will not succeed on account of the ‘privity of consideration’ under the English law.

  2. ‘A’ will not succeed under the Indian law also.

  3. ‘A’ will succeed under the Indian law.

  4. Both (1) and (3) are correct.

  5. Both (1) and (3) are incorrect.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Under Indian law, doctrine of “privity of consideration” means that only a person who has provided consideration can enforce a promise. Privity of consideration is not recognised under the English law.

Multiple choice

Bigamy is

  1. the breaking of the marriage legally

  2. entering into marriage with one person while still illegally married to another

  3. entering into marriage with one person while still legally married to another

  4. none of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Bigamy is a marriage in which one of the parties is already legally married. Bigamous marriages are void and grounds for annulment.