{"id":18011,"date":"2013-06-20T12:16:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T08:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=18011"},"modified":"2013-06-20T12:16:55","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T08:16:55","slug":"indian-court-rules-that-any-couple-who-have-sex-are-legally-married-and-would-need-to-divorce-if-they-want-to-sleep-with-someone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=18011","title":{"rendered":"Indian court rules that any couple who have sex are legally married&#8230; and would need to divorce if they want to sleep with someone else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/indian-couples.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18007\" alt=\"indian couples\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/indian-couples.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/indian-couples.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/indian-couples-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/indian-couples-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>If an unmarried couple have sex they are considered husband and wife &#8211; and would have to \u2018divorce\u2019 if they split, an Indian court has ruled.<\/p>\n<p>When two people of legal age, 18 for a woman and 21 for a man, \u2018indulge in sexual gratification\u2019 this should be seen as a &#8216;an act of total commitment&#8217; and marriage by law, a judge at Madras High Court said.<\/p>\n<p>The court said that the registering of a marriage as well as a wedding ceremony were only formalities to gain society\u2019s approval.<\/p>\n<p>It also said that once two people have sex this \u2018becomes a total commitment with adherence to all consequences that may follow\u2019, including needing a decree of divorce should they want to sleep with someone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If an unmarried couple have sex they are considered husband and wife &#8211; and would&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}