The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court recently ruled that once a marriage is validly dissolved by a competent foreign court, the “domestic relationship” between the parties as husband and wife, which is required to invoke the Domestic Violence Act, ceases. The observations were made by Justice Vinod Chatterji Koul’s bench in a December
Domestic Violence Proceedings Can’t be Initiated After Dissolution of Marriage by Competent Court: JKL HC
