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3 Jus Corpus L.J. 1 (2022-2023)

handle is hein.journals/juscrp3 and id is 1 raw text is: Jus Corpus Law Journal Open Access Law Journal - Copyright © 2022 - ISSN 2582-7820 Editor-in-Chief - Prof. (Dr.) Rhishikesh Dave; Publisher - Ayush Pandey This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution- Non-Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0) License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Rights of Children of Void and Voidable Marriages: A Comparison between Hindu and Muslim Personal Laws Vanshika Singh Jaiswala aNational Law Institute University, Bhopal, India Received 01 August 2022; Accepted 25 August 2022; Published 01 September 2022 What are the provisions or rights for a child born in a marriage that is void or voidable? There are many myths pertaining to the legitimag of children born in India from a void and a void marriage. If a child is born out of lawful wedlock, he or she is said to be legitimate. There are three types of marriages prevalent in India, i.e., valid, voidable, and void marriages. The words void and voidable raise a big question about the validity of a marriage. As the name implies, valid marriages are lawful. However, the status of kids in a void declared marriage would be the big ambivalence that gets illustrated in such situations. In this research work, the researcher has focused on drawing out the comparison between the rights of children born of void and voidable marriages under Hindu and Muslimpersonallaws by studying it under two majorparts. The firstpart deals with the concept of void/ voidable marriages, the notion of legitimization, and the rights of children born of such marriages under the Hindu personal laws, wohile the second part deals with the same under the Muslim personal laws. The researcher then concludes the project by draving out the comparison between the two and providing some suggestions for it. Keywords: void marriage, voidable marriage, legitimization, rights of child, personal laws OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY The study has been undertaken with the following objectives: 1