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Court Permission to Take Child Abroad in Pakistan: The Quick Answer If a court has appointed a guardian of a child (for example, the mother after a guardianship order), that guardian cannot take the child out of the court’s jurisdiction without the court’s leave. This rule is in Section 26 of the Guardians and Wards
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Guardians and Wards Act in Pakistan: Easy Guide With Court Examples Imagine this. Sara’s husband passes away. She is living in Karachi with her 6-year-old son. Within a week, her father-in-law arrives and says, “The child and his father’s plot are now my responsibility.” Sara is scared. Can he really take the child? Who decides?
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Introduction Every day in the District Courts, even senior practitioners occasionally trip over one small but costly mistake: a wrong court fee calculation. Sometimes an ad valorem fee is affixed where a fixed fee was required, sometimes the difference between Schedule I and Schedule II gets confused, and sometimes an exemption is assumed that does
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Introduction Every year, thousands of divorces in Pakistan get challenged in court simply because the correct legal procedure wasn’t followed, no notice was sent to the Union Council, no Arbitration Council was formed, and no Iddat was properly observed. This gap between religious practice and legal requirement creates real problems: contested divorces, denied maintenance, and
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Forced Marriage Law in Pakistan: What Section 498-B PPC Actually Says If you’ve spent even a few months in the district courts of Karachi, you’ve probably come across a family matter where a girl, sometimes barely out of her teens, has been married off under pressure, threat, or outright deception. Her family calls it “rishta.”
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Practical Introduction of Khula Procedure in Pakistan If you have practiced family law in Pakistan for even a short while, you already know that khula is one of those subjects everyone thinks they understand until a client calls three months after the decree asking why she still cannot remarry, or why her CNIC still shows
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Introduction to Past Maintenance Claims in Pakistan A question that comes up often at the Family Court is this: “Sahab, my husband didn’t pay maintenance for years. Can I recover the entire amount now?” It’s a fair question, and an emotionally loaded one. But the honest answer, more often than not, disappoints the client at
Introduction An Application for Compromise under Order XXIII Rule 3 CPC is a formal application filed before a competent court to record a lawful settlement reached between the parties in a pending suit or family proceeding. In family law matters, such as suits for dissolution of marriage (Khula), maintenance, recovery of dower, custody, or restitution
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