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USomeone in my family (Hindu female) is getting married to a Sikh male.
The marriage ceremony is happening at a Gurudwara in Mumbai, Maharashtra, as families live there.
Post ceremony they plan to do a court marriage in Vadodara for legally ratifying the marriage. Vadodara because this is where the couple will be be living post marriage.
If someone can please help me understand this:-
In future if (god forbid) things don’t go well and they file divorce. Where will they have to lodge and fight the divorce case?
Will it be Vadodara, where court marriage happened & they live, or Mumbai, where the ceremony happened? Or somewhere else?
Kindly help me understand how the jurisdiction scene works in such cases.
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P**Jurisdiction of the Court (Where can one file a Divorce case?)**
The divorce petition is to be presented to the district court, which includes Family Court within the local limits of whose ordinary original civil jurisdiction,
i) The marriage was solemnized, or
ii) The respondent at the time of the presentation of the petition, resides, or
iii) The parties to the marriage last resided together; or
iv) In case petitioner is wife, where she resides at the time of presentation of the suit; or
v) The petitioner is residing at the time of the presentation of the petition, in a case where the respondent is at that time, residing outside the territories to which this Act extends, or has not been heard of as being alive for a period of seven years or more by those persons who would naturally have heard of him if he were alive.
**Analogous provisions of law**:
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 – Section 19
Special Marriage Act, 1954 – Section 31
taken from [https://divorcebylaw.com/best-contested-divorce-lawyers-in-bangalore/](https://divorcebylaw.com/best-contested-divorce-lawyers-in-bangalore/)
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Pii – the petitioner can also choose the jurisdiction based on the address where the respondent is residing, however this is not practiced generally.
v – if the respondent is outside the territories of India or not sure whether the respondent alive or dead for a period of 7 years or more, the petitioner’s address considered for jurisdiction
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