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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

“A Hindu mother can be the natural guardian of her minor child during the life of the father of the child if he is not taking due care of the child.” This was held by the Supreme Court of India in the case of

  1. M. M. Ganguli Vs. Jayanti Ganguli

  2. Jijabai Vs. Pathan Khan

  3. Sarla Mudgil Vs. Union of India

  4. Githa Hariharan Vs. Reserve Bank of India
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D Correct answer
Explanation

"A Hindu mother can be the natural guardian of her minor child during the life of the father of the child if he is not taking due care of the child.” This was held by the Supreme Court of India in the case of Githa Hariharan Vs. Reserve Bank of India.

Multiple choice

Divorce by Zihar is a species of

  1. actual divorce

  2. inchoate divorce

  3. khula divorce

  4. constructive divorce
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Divorce by Zihar is a species of inchoate divorce. In this form, the husband expresses his dissatisfaction with his wife by comparing her with the back of his mother or sister or any other woman within the degrees of prohibited relationship.

Multiple choice

A decree of judicial separation

I. dissolves the matrimonial bond II. does not dissolve the matrimonial bond but merely suspends marital rights and obligations during the subsistence of the decree III. mandates that the parties still continue to be husband and wife but not obliged to live together IV. provides that if the parties have not resumed cohabitation for a period of one year, either party may seek divorce

  1. I, II and IV

  2. I, II, III and IV

  3. I and IV

  4. II, III and IV
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D Correct answer
Explanation

A decree of judicial separation does not dissolve the matrimonial bond but merely suspends marital rights and obligations during the subsistence of the decree. Even after a decree of judicial separation, the parties still continue to be husband and wife but not obliged to live together. A decree of judicial separation provides that if the parties have not resumed cohabitation for a period of one year, either party may seek divorce.

 

Multiple choice

In which of the following cases can a child not be a ‘Hindu’ under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955?

I. Only one parent is a Hindu and the child was brought up as a Hindu. II. If after the birth of a child, both the parents convert to Buddhism. III. Only one parent is a Jain and the child was not brought up as a Jain. IV. If after the birth of a child, both the parents convert to Muslim religion and in the exercise of parental right, the child is also converted to Muslim religion.

  1. I, II and IV

  2. III and IV

  3. II and I

  4. I, II and III
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B Correct answer
Explanation

III and IV are the cases in which a child could not be a ‘Hindu’ under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955.

Multiple choice

Section 125 of the CrPC provides that if any person having sufficient means neglects or refuses to maintain his wife, unable to maintain herself, the court may order such person to a monthly allowance for the maintenance of his wife. The term 'wife' includes a woman who has

  1. been divorced by or has obtained divorce from her husband and has not remarried

  2. been divorced by or has obtained divorce from her husband and has or has not remarried

  3. or has not obtained divorce from her husband

  4. not obtained divorce from her husband

  5. None of these
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A Correct answer
Explanation

The Code of Criminal Procedure provides provisions related to maintenance under Section 125. In this section, a wife can also claim maintenance from her husband, provided the woman should have been divorced or obtained divorce from her husband and should have not remarried.

Multiple choice

According to the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956, which of the following is incorrect?

  1. Maintenance is a legal obligation.

  2. Maintenance is a personal obligation.

  3. A Hindu wife shall be entitled to be maintained by her husband during her lifetime.

  4. A husband’s obligation to maintain his wife is coextensive with property.

  5. None of these
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D Correct answer
Explanation

A husband’s obligation to maintain his wife is irrespective of the property. It is his personal obligation. A wife is legally entitled to claim maintenance from her husband and the husband is bound to maintain his wife.

Multiple choice

According to the Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act, 1939, which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?

  1. Section 2(i) - Missing of husband

  2. Section 2(ii) - Failure to provide for wife’s maintenance for two years

  3. Section 2 (iii) - Imprisonment of husband

  4. Section 2 (v) - Impotency of husband

  5. Sec 2 (vi) - Insanity
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Section 2(v) provides grounds of divorce to a woman married under the Muslim Law where the husband was impotent at the time of the marriage and continues to be so.

Multiple choice

A Muslim marriage is void on the ground(s) of

  1. consanguinity (blood relationship)

  2. affinity

  3. fosterage

  4. All of the above

  5. consanguinity and fosterage
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D Correct answer
Explanation

A man cannot marry or intercourse with these relations prohibited on the ground of consanguinity or affinity, which arise on the account of fosterage.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is not entitled to inheritance under the Hindu Succession Act?

  1. A son or a daughter of a voidable marriage

  2. Adopted son or adopted daughter

  3. A son or a daughter of void marriage

  4. Stepson or stepdaughter

  5. None of these
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D Correct answer
Explanation

A stepson or a stepdaughter is entitled to a share in the inheritance of his natural father, but not of his stepfather. A stepson or a stepdaughter has no claim even for maintenance against his stepfather.

Multiple choice

A Muslim man cannot marry his

  1. wife’s sister

  2. son’s wife

  3. foster sister

  4. All of the above

  5. None of these
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D Correct answer
Explanation

A Muslim man cannot marry his wife’s sister, son’s wife and foster sister.

Multiple choice

A sum stipulated for a Muslim girl in marriage is

  1. musha

  2. mahr

  3. nazrana

  4. ila

  5. None of these
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Under Muslim law, mahr is a mandatory payment in the form of money by the groom or by groom’s father to the bride at the time of marriage. The mahr legally becomes bride’s property.