P&H: Wife’s Convenience Not Automatic Ground For Transfer Case; 130 Km Distance Not Sufficient
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed a wife’s plea to transfer her husband’s divorce case from Rohtak to Kaithal, holding that while a wife’s convenience is ordinarily considered in matrimonial transfer petitions, it cannot be applied mechanically without showing exceptional hardship.
Hearing transfer application filed by wife seeking shifting of her husband, Section 13 Hindu Marriage Act petition from the Family Court at Rohtak to a competent court at Kaithal. Wife claimed she was living with her single mother at Kaithal, was unemployed, and found it unsafe to travel about 130 km each way without male escort. She also...
