MUMBAI: Two months after the Supreme Court held that a six-month wait for a mutual consent divorce is not mandatory, the Mumbai family court waived the "cooling off" period for a couple estranged for almost a decade. It helped reduce the agony of a Mumbai woman battling cancer, and her husband of three decades who lives abroad. The couple, married in 1987, have been living apart since 2008. "Making couples stick to a statutory six-month period before a final decree would be meaningless when they can demonstrate that marriage is truly over,'' said lawyer Mrinalini Deshmukh. The court observed the couple has stayed apart for more than the statutory period of a year.The court said, "Keeping the case pending would prolong her (the woman's) agony and thus can be inferred to be a fit case to waive the statutory six month period.''

Source: Times of India November 28, 2017 22:52 UTC