Foreign courts respected on child custody |
The Indian Supreme Court said that orders passed by foreign courts on matrimonial disputes involving Indian origin couples should be respected by Indian courts. The ruling came during a hearing of cases where relief is sought in India after one of the parties flies back to the country. While adjudicating on a child custody battle of a couple of Indian origin holding UK citizenship, a bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and U U Lalit directed that the case be decided by the High Court of Justice in UK. It directed the mother, who had flown back to India with two minor daughters, to take the children to UK and subject herself to the jurisdiction of the court there. Merely because a child has been brought to India from a foreign country does not necessarily mean that the domestic court should decide the custody issue, said the Supreme Court.
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