{"id":10910,"date":"2012-03-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/03\/28\/wedding-in-india-divorcing-in-the-us\/"},"modified":"2012-03-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T12:00:00","slug":"wedding-in-india-divorcing-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/03\/28\/wedding-in-india-divorcing-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedding in India, Divorcing in the US?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com\/channels\/cities\/chennai\/wed-here-divorce-us-no-way-517\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CHENNAI, INDIA, March 19, 2012 (Deccan Chronicle): In a judgment with far-reaching consequences, the Madras High Court (HC) has held that a decree for dissolution of a marriage by a foreign court is not binding in India if a wedding is solemnised in the country under the Hindu Marriage Act.<\/p>\n<p>A division bench comprising justices R. Banumathi and S. Vimala gave the ruling while dismissing an appeal by Sunder against an order of a family court in Chennai declaring a decree of divorce by Superior Court of California not binding on his wife Shyamala.<\/p>\n<p>The couple tied the knot in Vellore district in 1999, but Sunder went to the US within a year and did not communicate with Shyamala after that. In 2000, she received summons from Superior Court of California, which subsequently granted Sunder divorce despite her defense statement.<\/p>\n<p>HC said Superior Court of California was not a court of competent jurisdiction to decide the matrimonial dispute of the appellant\/husband married under the Hindu Marriage Act in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source CHENNAI, INDIA, March 19, 2012 (Deccan Chronicle): In a judgment with far-reaching consequences, the Madras High Court (HC) has,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}