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In the light of judicial intervention on ‘Live-in relationships’, discuss the future of marriage and family in India.

  • UPSC 2019
  • Systems of Kinship

A live-in relationship is cohabitation by an unmarried couple without the rites or registration of marriage. Indian society has long seen it as deviant. Parliament has not legislated on it, so the courts have defined its legal status step by step. That judicial record is a good guide to where marriage and family in India…

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  • How the courts have intervened
  • What this means for the future of marriage
  • What it means for the family
  • Conclusion

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