"The amendments now empower judges to exercise discretion in granting divorce if one of the partners does not move a second ‘joint application’ for divorce with mutual consent".
Hmm... seems this to be a very skilful matured step of the government towards adaptability of changes & modernity of advancing centuries!!
To cope up with the growing liberality this would really prove to be helpful attempt made on their part to allow couples involving both the genders to choose to be in the relation of marriage only as far as they feel comfortable, compatible ......eventually happier in this relation.
Neither of them hereafter could possessively make stringent decision to forcibly keep the other tied up in their marriage on the ground that without his or her consent the other can't be freed or take the life to the other way of happiness.
Is this kind of extortion in any relation right?? Is the marriage inspite being a vital relation of everyones life cant be consensual?
In many prevailing cases if a single partner in the couple do not agree to divorce the other partner cant be freed from this relation for the life time ruining both the lives & having no future or present to that relation.
Marriage remaining no more the marriage but as if the person is hanged till death :-x
If the person has decided to move on from relation then how could he or she be forcibly bound to be in it....The intention here is not to support bigamy by criticising or downgrading monogamy where a woman is one man oriented & a man is one woman oriented....But the point to understand & accept is that marriage should exist as far as both the partners mutually want to be in this relation not just because the other is not giving divorce or forcibly keeping the other specially when the other has already decided to apart moving to other way & honestly accepting if the relation & the love between the two is maturely stronger then no divorce or any law would interrupt in this relation ever but if they then one must be cautious enough to have the whole strength & understanding in accepting it because none of them would be happy either ways!!
If either amongst the two decides to divorce one must have the full choice to retain the other with all necessary possibilities of saving their marriage but still if it doesn't work then its always better to mutually set free from such relation though its very painful decision on part of both but forcibly keeping together with so many differences would also be no lesser painful to them.
As far as responsibilities of both partner towards each others are concern neither of them has a chance to escape them as there are still many existing laws to tackle such situations ruling the maintenance of woman's living, rights in the property, equivalent compensations, alimony....& so & so..
Lets await what more comes forth & how our Indian government executes this enforcement in such way that this new proposed law justify the purpose of easing the divorces neither making it biased towards single gender nor making it unjust towards either!!
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