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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

Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

The great conflict generated by the debate in urban middle-class homes over love versus arranged marriages is precisely about whether people belong to themselves or to wider communities.

  1. over love versus arranged marriages is precisely about whether people belong

  2. over love versus arranged marriages is precisely whether people belong

  3. over love marriages versus arranged marriages is precisely about whether people belong

  4. over love marriage versus arranged marriages is precisely about whether people belong

  5. over love marriages versus arranged marriages is precisely whether people belong
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The sentence suffers from the error of comparison. The debate is over two types of marriage, not between two types of bonding: marriage and love. This option rectifies the error by adding 'marriages' after 'love'.

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.

Multiple choice

A is accused of rape. According to law, what defence is permissible to him?

  1. They love each other and want to marry.

  2. He lost his control under the circumstances.

  3. She consented to the act of sexual intercourse.

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

Option (1) is incorrect: This defence is not admissible in the court of law. Option (2) is incorrect: This defence is not admissible in the court of law. Option (3) is correct: Consent is a defense taken into consideration under the act of rape.

Multiple choice

Who may claim for maintenance under Section 125 of the CrPC?

  1. Wife who has her own source of income

  2. Illegitimate minor child

  3. Stepson or daughter

  4. Brother and sister
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Option (1) is incorrect: Wife who has her own source of income cannot claim maintenance under Section 125 of the CrPC. Option (2) is correct: Under Section 125(1)(b), a legitimate or illegitimate minor child, whether married or not, and unable to maintain himself/herself, can claim maintenance. Option (3) is incorrect: Stepson or daughter cannot claim maintenance under Section 125 of the CrPC. Option (4) is incorrect: Brother and sister cannot claim maintenance under Section 125 of the CrPC.

Multiple choice

Under Hindu law, a mother in the absence of her son's father sells her minor son's immovable property. The minor son on attaining majority can challenge this transaction

  1. on the ground of not taking permission from the court

  2. as the transaction was not done by his father

  3. as no such transaction can be done for minor son

  4. but he will be unsuccessful because the transaction is valid
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

He can challenge this transaction on the ground of not taking permission from the court.

Multiple choice

No wife shall be entitled to receive maintenance from her husband under Section 125 of the CrPC 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

Option (1) is incorrect: Under Section 125 of the CrPC, a divorced wife and can claim maintenance. Option (2) is incorrect: If a wife is unable to maintain herself, she can claim maintenance under Section 125. Option (3) is incorrect: If a wife refused to live with her husband on the ground that he keeps a mistress, she can claim maintenance under Section 125. Option (4) is correct: Under Section 125(5) of the CrPC, no wife shall be entitled to receive an allowance for the maintenance from her husband under this Section if she is living in adultery.

Multiple choice

A agrees to pay B a sum of money if B marries C, but C marries D. The agreement is

  1. void

  2. voidable

  3. legal

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

Option (1) is correct: If the future event on which a contract is contingent is the way in which a person will act at an unspecified time, the event shall be considered to become impossible when such a person does anything which renders it impossible that he should so act within any definite time or otherwise than under further contingencies.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is not a ground of divorce?

  1. If one party has been suffering from leprosy

  2. If one party has been heard of as being alive from a period of seven years

  3. If one party has renounced the world by entering by religious order

  4. If one party has been suffering from veneral disease in communicable form
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

If a party has been heard of as being alive from a period of seven years then it is not a ground to obtain divorce under the Hindu Law.