A judicial ruling from the Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi Bench has clarified an important point of family law, stating that courts cannot automatically convert a cruelty-based suit into a simple Khula decree without the explicit and informed consent of the wife involved. According to reports, family courts cannot routinely convert a suit founded on cruelty into a simple Khula decree...
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