Legal Notice for Divorce

What this is

Send a legal notice to your spouse conveying that you intend to seek divorce on stated grounds, or proposing a divorce by mutual consent with a settlement, and calling upon them to respond, return your belongings and documents, or come to the table. It is for married persons of any community who have decided to separate. Our panel advocate drafts, reviews and signs the notice on letterhead and it is sent to your spouse by email and WhatsApp, with tracked speed post if you choose it.

What you get

A legal notice to your spouse drafted and signed by our panel advocate on letterhead, setting out the marriage, the separation, the grounds or the proposal for mutual consent, the demands regarding belongings, documents, children and finances that you choose, and the time given to respond. Sent to your spouse by email and WhatsApp. Optional tracked speed post (+₹79) adds the dispatch receipt, tracking ID and delivery acknowledgement. Includes a short note on the divorce route that fits your facts, the court where a petition can be filed, and the waiting periods that apply under your personal law.

How it works

1. 1Upload the marriage proofMarriage certificate, or wedding invitation and photographs if there is no certificate. We read it and pre-fill the marriage details for you to confirm.
2. 2Tell us about the separationWhen you separated, where each of you lives now, the children, and the ground or the mutual consent proposal.
3. 3Answer the advocate's questionsThe incidents behind the ground, any cases or complaints already filed by either side, belongings and stridhan, children and finances, and what you want the notice to achieve.
4. 4PayPay the fee. Tracked speed post is optional.
5. 5Advocate drafts and signsOur panel advocate checks the personal law and the grounds, drafts the notice and signs it on letterhead.
6. 6Notice is sentThe notice goes to your spouse by email and WhatsApp, and by speed post if chosen. You receive your copy and the next-steps note.

What to have ready

• Marriage certificate or proof of marriageRegistration certificate. If none, the wedding invitation and photographs of the ceremony.
• Evidence of incidents (if you have it)Messages, emails, medical reports, photographs, police complaints or recordings transcript supporting the ground.
• Case papers, complaints or notices already filed or received (if you have it)By either side.
• List and bills of stridhan, jewellery and gifts (if you have it)With photographs if available.
• Children's birth certificates (if you have it)If there are children.
• Spouse's ID or address proof (if you have it)If you have a copy; carries the address for the notice.
• Settlement proposal or draft terms (if you have it)If any have been exchanged.

What this is based on

• Hindu Marriage Act 1955 / Special Marriage Act 1954 / Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act 1939 / Indian Divorce Act 1869 / Parsi Marriage & Divorce Act 1936 (1955)