D.Velusamy vs. D.Patchaiammal, 2010
21-07-2021
The judgment contains various pre-requisites for the live in the relationship that is valid. It gives the couple to hold themselves to the society as to spouses and must be of legal age to marry or qualified to enter into a legal marriage, including being unmarried. It will authorize the couple to have willingly cohabited and held themselves out to the akin to spouses for a significant period of time. The court ordered that not all relationships will amount to a relationship in the environment of marriage and get the benefit of the Domestic Violence Act. It has been clarified that, if a man keeps women as a servant and keeps her financially and uses mainly for sexual purposes, such relationship will not be considered as marriage in the court of law. So to get such benefit the conditions given by the Court need to be satisfied and has to be proved by evidence.
