Latest Supreme Court decision on Christian Divorce
The Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice T S Thakur and Justice D Y Chandrachud, which was hearing a petition filed by Bengaluru-based octogenarian Catholic advocate Clarence Pais, who has sought legal sanctity for divorce decrees granted by church courts said on Monday(4/7/2016) that divorce decrees granted by ecclesiastical tribunals, popularly known among Christians as church courts, had no legal sanctity and anyone remarrying after such a divorce decree would be committing an offence. The Supreme Court in its earlier ruling in Molly Joseph vs George Sebastian(1996) case had settled the issue…
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