Reply to Divorce / Matrimonial Notice

What this is

Reply to a legal notice from your spouse or their advocate - divorce, restitution of conjugal rights, maintenance, custody, return of belongings or allegations of cruelty - so your position is recorded before any petition is filed and nothing goes unanswered. Our panel advocate drafts and signs the reply on letterhead and sends it by email and WhatsApp, with tracked speed post if you choose it.

What you get

A reply to the matrimonial notice, drafted, reviewed and signed by our panel advocate on letterhead, answering each allegation, recording your account of the marriage and separation, your position on the children, maintenance, belongings and settlement, and any proposal you make. Sent to your spouse or their advocate by email and WhatsApp. Optional tracked speed post (+₹79) adds the dispatch receipt, tracking ID and delivery acknowledgement. Includes a short note on the petitions the other side may file, the courts that can hear them, and what protects you meanwhile.

How it works

1. 1Upload the noticeAll pages, with the marriage certificate or wedding proof and papers of any case already filed. We pre-fill the sender, the allegations and the demands.
2. 2Tell us your sideYour account of the marriage, the separation and the children, and what you want.
3. 3Answer the advocate's questionsWhether you are safe, whether any case or complaint exists, where the children are, what each side earns, and whether reconciliation or settlement is possible.
4. 4PayPay the fee. Tracked speed post is optional.
5. 5Advocate drafts and signsOur panel advocate checks the personal law and the allegations, drafts the reply and signs it on letterhead.
6. 6Reply is sentThe reply goes to your spouse or their advocate by email and WhatsApp, and by speed post if chosen. You receive your copy and the next-steps note.

What to have ready

• Notice receivedAll pages, with proof of the date received.
• Marriage certificate or wedding proofRegistration certificate, or invitation and photographs.
• Case papers, complaints or orders already filed by either side (if you have it)If any.
• Evidence supporting your version (if you have it)Messages, emails, medical reports, photographs, recordings transcript.
• Income and asset documents (if you have it)Your salary slips or ITR; anything you have on your spouse's income or property.
• Children's birth certificates and school or medical records (if you have it)If custody or maintenance is in issue.
• List and bills of stridhan, gifts and belongings (if you have it)If their return is in issue.
• Earlier notice or settlement proposals exchanged (if you have it)If any.

What this is based on

• HMA 1955 / SMA 1954 / Muslim personal law / Indian Divorce Act 1869 / DV Act 2005. (1955)