Estranged Spouses Can Go To Any Extent To Satisfy Ego: Court On Plea Over Child's Record

Reinier Castelein also had to deal with surname changes as a child after a complicated divorce of his parents. He writes a column about this.

Estranged Spouses Can Go To Any Extent To Satisfy Ego: Court On Plea Over Child's Record

Parents embroiled in matrimonial disputes can go to any extent to satisfy their ego, the Bombay High Court has said dismissing a petition filed by a woman seeking only her name to be mentioned as parent in the child's birth record. Neither of the parents can exercise any right in respect of their child's birth record, Justices Mangesh Patil and Y G Khobragade of the HC's Aurangabad bench said in the March 28 order while deprecating such petition…

Estranged spouses can go to any extent to satisfy ego: HC

Mumbai: Parents embroiled in matrimonial disputes can go to any extent to satisfy their ego, the Bombay High Court has said dismissing a petition filed by a woman seeking only her name to be mentioned as parent in the child’s birth record. Neither of the parents can exercise any right in respect of their child’s birth record, Justices Mangesh Patil and Y G Khobragade of the HC’s Aurangabad bench said in the March 28 order while deprecating such …

HC rejects plea to alter birth record, cites estranged spouse's ego

The court imposed a cost of Rs 5,000 on a 38-year-old woman who filed a petition seeking to be recognised as the sole parent of her child