From Momotaz v. Sattar, decided Thursday by the Ohio Court of Appeals, in an opinion by Judge Sean Gallagher, joined by Judges Anita Laster Mays and Eileen Gallagher: On August 22, 2005, the parties ...

AHMEDABAD: In a significant ruling, the Gujarat High Court has held that a Muslim marriage can be dissolved through Mubaraat mutual consent divorce without any written agreement, overturning a Rajkot ...

Marriage as prescribed by Allah is the lawful union of a man and a woman based on mutual consent Ideally the purpose of ...

Sri Lankan activists are at the center of a decades-long battle to reform the country’s Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act. When the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami receded from Sri Lanka’s coasts, leaving a ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday, 19 August, dismissed a plea filed by the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) challenging a Punjab and Haryana High Court ruling that upheld the ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court has indicted imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife on a charge that their 2018 marriage violated the Islamic law requirement that a woman wait ...

Imran Khan and his wife were indicted by a Pakistani court on the charge that their 2018 marriage violated Islamic law. Khan, the former Prime Minister, denied the charge, and his lawyer claimed that ...

A local court in Pakistan on Saturday acquitted former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife of charges related to violations of Muslim marriage laws, effectively rendering him a legally free man. A ...

A Muslim man was held under a state law passed to address accusations by Hindu nationalists that women are being lured into marriage in order to convert them to Islam. By Geneva Abdul and Sameer Yasir ...