Legal Question in Family Law in India

Married in 2009, my wife's family is very poor and my inlaw was bankrupt.myself and my wife with 1 yr daughter stay with my parents, my parents look after us very well and my mother wakes up early than my wife for the household. but my wife quarells with my mother and she frequently threatens me of suicide , she wants to stay separate , but i am against to it,she always compares with my brothers and their wifes who are staying abroad and express dissatisfaction , she feels sorry of marrying me inspite of me helphing his father financially and regular repayment of her education loan, i dint take a single pie as dowry and all the expenses for marriage was bear by me. I feel my mother inlaw provokes my wife for these things , the don't have minimum gratitude for the help i am doing to them. i am very much afraid of even scolding my wife as she is regularly threatening of suicides, i am in mental distress. i want to go for divorce kindly guide me.

Asked on 1/23/12, 7:28 am

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You just need a little adjustment of your "mind-set" and mould your expectation to avoid any frustration. Firstly, you should stop comparing her with your mother in the matter of early rising or domestic work; secondly, you need to play your ego down and stop thinking that her family is poor or bankrupt or that you helped her or her parents financially. They are a part of your family and you need to accept that fact. If you did not take any dowry from her, you have not obliged anybody. "Dowry" is prohibited by law; dowry-seekers can face criminal prosecution and may suffer a jail term. If you did not take any dowry, you will cannot be accused of any 'dowry' but if you continue thinking this way, you may be accused of 'dowry demand' after marriage and may suffer prosecution.

Your statement does not disclose any ground for divorce. Stay cool and try to save your marriage. Good luck.!

Answered on 1/23/12, 5:45 pm

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