https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169900 A wife's residence right under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 extends only to a shared household, and not to the exclusive property of in-laws merely because the spouses once lived there. The Supreme Court noted that Section 2(s) cannot be read so broadly as to cover every house previously occupied by the couple, especially where the husband neither owned nor rented the premises and it was not joint family property. A claim for alternative accommodation under Section 19(1)(f) lies against the husband, not the in-laws. On these facts, the house was not a shared household and no enforceable right of residence or alternate accommodation against the in-laws was available. en-us Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 23 Nov 2015 19:40:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169900 A wife's residence right under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 extends only to a shared household, and not to the exclusive property of in-laws merely because the spouses once lived there. The Supreme Court noted that Section 2(s) cannot be read so broadly as to cover every house previously occupied by the couple, especially where the husband neither owned nor rented the premises and it was not joint family property. A claim for alternative accommodation under Section 19(1)(f) lies against the husband, not the in-laws. On these facts, the house was not a shared household and no enforceable right of residence or alternate accommodation against the in-laws was available. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169900