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Wednesday, Dec 25, 2013, 23:52 IST | Place: Pune | Agency: DNA

 

Family court plays Santa, grants kids' custody to father

This year’s Christmas turned out to be a memorable one for this software techie.
Joe (name changed) separated from his wife Julie (name changed) eight months ago and is currently pursuing his MBA in the United States of America.
His wish this year was to spend the Christmas with his two children which was granted when the family court granted him the custody of his children.
Prior to this, Julie had planned a trip to Bangalore, her hometown, and then further in South India with her children to spend the Christmas holidays.
The court granted Joe the custody, provided he reimburses the money that his wife had paid to book the trip.
The couple married in 2006. They have two children, a one-year-old son and a five-year-old daughter.
Joe wanted to spend his vacation with the children as he was unable to do the same in the past two years. Julie is working in the human resource department in a multinational company.
Julie’s case was represented by lawyer Pratibha Ghorpade who submitted the tickets of the tour company which were booked two months ago.
Ghorpade said, “Julie had planed a trip for the vacations, When her husband claimed that he wanted to spend time with his children, she accepted to give their custody to him. The family court later directed Joe to reimburse the ticket charges.“

Source : http://www.dnaindia.com/pune/report-family-court-plays-santa-grants-kids-custody-to-father-1940597