Saya & Associates
Ending a marriage is a legal process, not an argument you win.
Matrimonial matters run for years because the parties are fighting about one thing and litigating about five. The practice separates what is actually in dispute — money, children, property, the criminal complaint — and runs each on its own track, so a settlement on one does not wait on all the others.
Every proceeding a separation generates.
Divorce
Mutual-consent petitions and contested divorce under the Hindu Marriage Act, the Special Marriage Act and the personal laws, including cruelty, desertion and breakdown pleadings.
Maintenance & alimony
Interim and permanent maintenance under section 144 BNSS, section 24 of the Hindu Marriage Act and the Domestic Violence Act — and the answer to inflated claims, including where income has been understated.
Custody & guardianship
Custody, guardianship and visitation under the Guardians and Wards Act, including interim arrangements, relocation and the enforcement of orders across states.
Domestic violence
Proceedings under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 — residence, protection and monetary orders — acting for complainants and for respondents.
Matrimonial criminal matters
Defence and prosecution of complaints under section 85 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, formerly section 498A IPC, including anticipatory bail, quashing on settlement and mediation.
Succession & wills
Wills, probate, letters of administration, succession certificates and partition of family property, including intestate succession disputes between heirs.
Settle what can be settled. Litigate what cannot.
Most matrimonial matters end in a settlement. The question is whether that happens in year one or year six, and whether the person signing it understood what they were giving up. The practice works out the settlement position early — what maintenance is realistically payable, what custody arrangement a court would order — and negotiates against that, rather than against a number picked in anger.
Where settlement is not possible, or where a criminal complaint has already been filed, the matter is run properly: pleadings that stand, evidence led on record, and the interim orders that keep a person housed and a child seen while the case runs.
The interim orders matter more than the final one.
Stabilise
Interim maintenance, residence, protection or visitation — whatever stops the situation getting worse while the substantive case is prepared.
Scope
Assets, income, children and any criminal complaint mapped, so every proceeding is visible and none is negotiated in ignorance of another.
Resolve
Settlement where the terms are right and it is safe to take them; trial and appeal where they are not.