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  2. Muslim personal law - Wikipedia

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    All the Muslims in India are governed by the Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act, 1937. [1] This law deals with marriage, succession, inheritance and charities among Muslims. The Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act, 1939 deals with the circumstances in which Muslim women can obtain divorce [2] and rights of Muslim women who have been ...

  3. Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019

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    The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019 is an Act of the Parliament of India criminalising triple talaq. In August 2017, the Supreme Court of India declared triple talaq, which enables Muslim men to instantly divorce their wives, to be unconstitutional. [ 1 ] The minority opinion suggested the Parliament to consider ...

  4. Triple talaq in India - Wikipedia

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    The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019 passed on 30 July 2019 after a very long discussion and opposition finally got the verdict (the Indian Supreme Court judgement of August 2017 described below) to all women. It made triple talaq illegal in India on 1 August 2019, replacing the triple talaq ordinance promulgated in ...

  5. India's Assam scraps colonial-era Muslim marriage law

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    India's Assam state has scrapped an 89-year-old law that allowed marriage involving underage Muslims, against opposition from leaders of the minority community who called the plan an attempt to ...

  6. Special Marriage Act, 1954 - Wikipedia

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    Enacted by. Parliament of India. Assented to. 9 October 1954. Commenced. 1 January 1955. Status: In force. The Special Marriage Act, 1954 is an Act of the Parliament of India with provision for secular civil marriage (or "registered marriage") for people of India and all Indian nationals in foreign countries, irrelevant of the religion or faith ...

  7. All India Muslim Personal Law Board - Wikipedia

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    The AIMPLB is primarily concerned with issues related to marriage, divorce, inheritance, and other personal matters governed by Islamic law, known as Shariah. The AIMPLB has been involved in various significant cases and debates, including those related to the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act , the Shah Bano case , and the ...

  8. Sarla Mudgal, & others. v. Union of India - Wikipedia

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    Sarla Mudgal v. Union Of India[1] is a Supreme Court of India case. Its judgement in 1995 laid down the principles against the practice of solemnizing second marriage by conversion to Islam, with first marriage not being dissolved. The verdict discusses issue of bigamy, the conflict between the personal laws existing on matters of marriage and ...

  9. Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act 1986

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    The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act was an act passed by the Parliament of India in 1986 to protect the rights of Muslim women who have been divorced from their husband and to provide for related matters. The Act was passed by the Rajiv Gandhi government, with its absolute majority, to nullify the decision in the Shah Bano ...