Divorce is a significant aspect of family law in the UAE, governing both Muslims and non-Muslims. Previously, Federal Law No. 28 of 2005 regulated personal status matters for both Muslims and ...

Sept. 3 (UPI) --Since a law making it illegal for Muslim men to divorce their wives by pronouncing the word "talaq" three times was finally passed by the Indian parliament at the end of July, it has ...

The Assam government on Thursday introduced a bill to repeal a law to register marriages and divorces of Muslims, stating that it had scope to allow marriages of minors from the community. The All ...

An Indian courts decision on Tuesday to ban Islamic instant divorces highlighted a controversial practice that is disputed in Muslim countries and already banned in some. The instant divorce or ...

The actual Muslim wedding is known as a nikah. It is a simple ceremony, at which the bride does not have to be present so long as she sends two witnesses to the drawn-up agreement. Normally, the ...

India's Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down the Muslim practice that allows men to instantly divorce their wives as unconstitutional. The bench, comprising five senior judges of different faiths, ...

The Telangana High Court has held that a Muslim wife has an absolute and unconditional right to dissolve her marriage through khula, and that the husband’s consent is not a prerequisite for its ...

MUMBAI, India (AP) — Just hours after Shagufta Sayyd was married, her new husband told her he was having a relationship with another woman. He was clear the two would have no future, the 21-year-old ...

Modi criticised the so-called "triple talaq", that allows a Muslim man to part from his wife by saying "I divorce you" three times NEW DELHI, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on ...

p The instant divorce or "triple talaq" -- when a man says to his wife three times in succession "You are divorced" -- was deemed by the Indian Supreme Court to violate the constitution. The historic ...

New Delhi: Emphasising that courts must ground their reasoning in “social justice adjudication”, the Supreme Court Tuesday held that a Muslim woman, upon divorce, would be entitled to recovering money ...