It is well settled principle that law helps the vigilant and not the indolent.

2023 MLD 2073

It is well settled principle that law helps the vigilant and not the indolent.

The Petitioner was granted fair opportunities to file written statement and pursue his case before the Court below, but he himself deliberately disappeared from scene despite having knowledge of the proceedings of “former suit” and no valid justification is set out by him regarding his said default even before this Court.

It would also be beneficial to mention here that before enactment of the Act, female litigants had to wait for years to meet with final reliefs i.e. recovery of dower, maintenance, other ancillary matters and particularly, in cases of dissolution of marriage. By the time of obtaining decree, majority of the wives used to become grey haired much beyond the remarriage-able age, beside incurring heavy expenses on getting the relief with regard to a meager amount of maintenance, dower etc. 

Certain amendments were made in various sections of the Family Courts Act, the aim and object of which was to address and minimize miseries & plight of the wives seeking relief through the obsolete law then in vogue, as such, not only all matrimonial disputes were brought under one and the same umbrella of the Family Court but such amendments also provided for the target dates for deciding the relevant lis for both, the Family Court and the Lower Appellate Court. Deviation from and violation of the mandatory provisions of the Act, would amount to frustrate and reverse the efficacious remedies available under the new scheme of law