Hindu women were banned to obtain divorce in India before the 1956 Hindu Marriage Act. Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and Jains, are governed by the Hindu Marriage Act. Christians are governed by the Indian Divorce Act, Parsis by the Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, and Muslims by the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act.Only five reasons are allowed for the dissolution of a marriage when contested: adultery, abandonment, impotency, disease, and spousal abuse, although court interpretations have widened their scope. However, if both couples agree to mutually consent to divorce each other, no reason has to be given. Usually such a divorce is given on the grounds of incompatibility.
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