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Indian women and live-in relationships: Social stigma, pervasive myths cloud legal status
Contrary to popular belief, women in live-in relationships in India do enjoy legal rights akin to married women. So what is their legal position?
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Kerala HC decision frowning on live-in relationships ignores Supreme Court ruling on the same
The Kerala High Court recently concluded that being in a live-in relationship without contracting a marriage was ground to expel a female student. The High Court upheld the decision of the Management of Mar Thoma College of Science and Technology in Kollam to expel a female student – her only ‘crime’ being to have fallen in love with a classmate.
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A Madras High Court judgment on alimony made women sound like sex property: Here's how
Justice S Nagamuthu ruled that a woman seeking alimony, should 'maintain discipline as she was expected to maintain during the subsistence of her marriage'.