When a matrimonial case involves the plea for the dissolution/nullity of marriage, the courts should make all efforts to dispose it of within an outer limit of one year so that in the event of granting such a decree the parties may restructure their lives, said the High Court of Karnataka.
Justice Krishna S. Dixit issued the direction while disposing of a petition filed by a man, who had sought a direction to a Family Court in Bengaluru to decide his application, filed way back in 2016 seeking dissolution of marriage with his spouse.
“It hardly needs to be stated that ‘life is lost in living’. Delay in disposal of such cases very badly affects the parties thereto, needs no deliberation,” the court observed while quoting Thomas Carlyle, a British historian and philosopher of great repute who had said, “Life is too short to be little.”
