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QAs a lawyer, i can tell you that people are going overboard thinking about this alimony thing. If things go south, what you need is a good lawyer nothing else. The divorce rate officially is between 1-3%. Lets triple it and take it as 10%. Even then how many of these get into serious alimony category? Very few. So relax. And honestly you need to ask advice on a relationship reddit as to how to know your partner better before committing in a arranged marriage setup
Having said that, alimony is a % of your income (and not assets) unless your wife has contributed to the assets. The only asset as such the wife can claim to use is the marital home where she is allowed to stay till the divorce.
Assets come into picture when you say do a one time settlement amount. Say the wife has put other allegations against you so to wrap it up you offer. Basically people get fed up of the constant cases and offer money/assets to get rid of the issue.
But honestly a good litigating lawyer is what you need in a divorce case. I see so many cases where wives with children are struggling to minimum amount even for children. Of course there are also cases where men are unnecessarily harassed for stupid amounts but again good lawyer is what you need. Many recent judgements have infact criticised high alimony amounts demanded by the wife and consented to much less.
Nominee is not equal to beneficiary btw. You might be the sole nominee to your parents accounts but your sister has equal share in that money unless you are the sole beneficiary in the will and the money is self earned by your parents (and not inherited).
There is no documents as such that you can sign for streedhan or prenup or saying we won’t take dowry. They don’t have much legal validity. However, divorce cases are not criminal matters and hence the standards of proof are not the same. So documents/messages/recordings all give you some edge in building your case.
If you have a huge net worth, it is actually beneficial to see a lawyer to clear all your doubts
QIn delhi I’ve never seen anyone pay brokerage again… You just take the old agreement and type a new one with the same language but different dates and amount and use that.… Here the norm is 11 months agreement… If a rent agreement is less than 12 months you don’t have to get it registered…. So you just make it for 11 months on a stamp paper, get it notarised for 50 rs and be done with it.
Once the broker asked me to pay brokerage for the second year, i just laughed and put down the phone…
