Boyfriend promised to marry but now he is marring some other girl?

683 votes

There are now guidelines of the Supreme Court to give legal rights to live in partners- 1. They must be the legal age to get married. 2. They must be living together as husban wife for a considerably long time. 3. They are showing to the society or reflecting to the society that they are husband wife. In these cases the girl has a right to get rights of a legal wife. You have stayed with the guy for 5 years hence you have a good case of the conditions/ criteria's are being fulfilled

Advocate Shivani Verma LawRato

915 votes

You can talk to him even then he does not agrees then you can lodge a complaint before the police and tell them that on the false pretext of marriage you have been subjected to sexual exploitation I think that would suffice the purpose

Advocate Jorong Sanga LawRato

717 votes

Respected Questioner I would like to inform you that latest Supreme Court judgement provides the safeguard to those who have been in a living relationship with his/her boyfriend. The partner of a live in relationship was first time accorded protection by the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, which considers females who are not formally married, but are living with a male person in a relationship, which is in the nature of marriage, also akin to wife, though not equivalent to wife. Section 2(f) of the Act defines domestic relationship which means a relationship between two persons who live or have, at any point of time, lived together in a shared household, when they are related by consanguinity, marriage, or through a relationship in the nature of marriage, adoption or are family members living together as a joint family. Thus, the definition of domestic relationship includes not only the relationship of marriage but also a relationship `in the nature of marriage. So we can file a case before the Competent Court to declaration of valid wife.

Advocate Anil Kumar Singh LawRato