Daughter can question validity of father's second marriage, rules Bombay HC
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The Bombay High Court has said a daughter can question the validity of her father's second marriage. The verdict was given while hearing a plea filed by a 66-year-old daughter whose father had remarried few months after her mother's death in 2003.
The Bombay High Court has said a daughter can question the validity of her father's second marriage. The verdict was given by the division bench of Justice RD Dhanuka and Justice VG Bisht while hearing a plea filed by a 66-year-old daughter whose father had remarried few months after her mother's death in 2003. The woman's father had died in 2015. While going through his documents in 2016, she realised that her stepmother was already married before she married her father and has not yet been divorced. The daughter alleged that her stepmother "took undue advantage of mental ailments, infirmities and unsoundness of mind of her father, which she was very well aware of. She got married to him, then exercised and applied undue influence, coercion and duress upon him with the intention and motive of siphoning his entire properties".
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