Let this become a new normal, as it would help preserve the institution of marriage and family.” Madurai : The phrase ‘Homemaker’ is gender neutral said Madras high court on Thursday, adding: “If there can be house wives, there can be house husbands also.
As a result, both appealed against the order and that is how they are before us.”
“Unlike the modern western societies, in Bharathiya culture, it is the family and not the individual which is the foundational unit,” said a division bench of Justice G R Swaminathan and Justice M D Sumathi, while dissolving the marriage of a doctor-couple who had sought divorce by mutual consent on the ground of cruelty. Reversing the family court order denying divorce to the doctor-couple, the judges observed: “Marriages may make both parties unhappy. But the outcome of an adversarial litigation must make at least one party happy. But this judge succeeded in making both unhappy.
Noting that the relationship between the couple has broken down beyond repair, the judges said, “The marriage that was solemnized between the parties is dissolved by a decree of divorce by mutual consent.
The decree of divorce will come into force only upon the fulfilment of the financial obligations undertaken by the man before the court.”