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H/l: 5,000 cases pending, just three judges left: Family court in trouble AADITI JATHAR LAKADE Posted: Tuesday , Jan 05, 2010 Pune: With about 5,000 cases pending and another 3,500 new cases likely to be registered this year, shortage of judges at the Pune family court is fast becoming a big issue. Six months back, two court judges were transferred out of Pune District Family Court. The court now is left with just three. Nirmala, who had filed her divorce petition in August 2003, said: “Six years have already gone by. We were at the stage of settling the maintenance amount. But, there has been no hearing on the case since May and the case keeps getting further dates. I feel there will be no hearing on the case till new judges are appointed.” Like Nirmala, there are several other women awaiting their maintenance amount. Many need the money to meet their daily requirements. “These women have already left their husbands’ homes; their own relatives are unwilling or incapable of supporting ...

H/l: A group to fight post-divorce blues, cope with stress in children intro: Peer group divorced persons, widows and those 'separated' from their spouses share difficulties and find solutions with help from family court marriage counsellors AADITI JATHAR LAKADE Tuesday , Jan 12, 2010 at Pune Pune: All through her four-year divorce ordeal, Pradnya had sleepless nights. After her formal separation from her husband, she is more worried seeing her school-going son unable to cope with the situation. “It is not the pain of the divorce, but my son’s inability to cope with the separation that bothers me,” she says. She has now joined the Single Parents’ Association (SPA) that works towards tackling problems of single parents such as bringing up children, coping with loneliness and so on. The association that began with 20-odd members a year ago recently added 50 more indicating the growing need of such an organisation that was initiated by the ‘Association of Marriage Counsellors work...