Family Matters:
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The behavior and attitude of humans toward their family and private law issues is the subject of family law. Even though family difficulties are mostly private and intimate, people frequently overstep their boundaries and abuse their rights, causing harm to their loved ones’ minds and souls. When such private and family rights are violated, the provisions of family law come to play.
Bangladesh is a country with many diverse traditions, cultures, and faiths, and thus family law is provided in different ways to serve individuals of diverse ethnicities and religions.
In Bangladesh, family law covers wide-ranging confidential and sensitive issues. Divorce pronouncement and registration concerning Bangladeshi marriages (inside as well as outside the country), marriage registration in Bangladesh, child custody, guardianship of the child, maintenance of the spouse, child/children and parents and discovery of child unlawfully confined are the most prevalent topics. Aside from these, the Bangladeshi families deal with a variety of issues, including dissolution of marriage without divorce, dower, domestic abuse, inheritance, property division, wills/gifts/Heba, prenuptial agreements, polygamy, child marriage and so on.
Concerning laws:Previously, family cases were dealt with by civil courts and magistrate courts, both of which followed the Code of Civil Procedure and the Code of Criminal Procedure. Now there are many acts, rules and regulations have been introduced to deal with the family issues. Such legislations include, the Family Courts Ordinance 1985, the Muslim Family Law Ordinance 1961, the Muslim Marriage and Divorce (Registration) Rules 2009, the Special Marriage Act 1872, the Foreign Marriage Act 1903, the Divorce Act 1869, the Muslim Marriage Dissolution Act 1939, the Dowry Prohibition Act 2018, the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Safety) Act 2010, the Child Marriage Restraint Act 2017, the Maintenance of Parents Act 2013, the Nari-o-Shishu Nirjatan Daman Ain 2000, the Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act 1937, the Guardians and Ward Act 1890, the Majority Act 1875, the Succession Act 1925 and so on.