Don’t badmouth each other before children as parenthood continues even after divorce, Karnataka HC tells couple while dissolving marriage

While allowing dissolution of the marriage of a couple, the High Court of Karnataka directed them to refrain from making disparaging remarks against each other in the presence of, or within the hearing of, their two minor daughters.

Besides, the court asked them to make every endeavour to ensure that the children are able to maintain a loving, healthy and unhindered relationship with both parents, while observing that “both the parties [parents] shall bear in mind that, notwithstanding the dissolution of their matrimonial relationship, they continue to be the parents of the children.”

A Division Bench comprising Justice D.K. Singh and Justice H. Shanthi Bhushan passed the order while disposing of a plea in which it reduced the alimony granted to the wife, a medical practitioner, by the family court to ₹50 lakh from ₹2 crore, considering her financial status, independent source of income and her own financial assets.