4 Procedures of Divorce: Court and Judicial Committee

1. The court route: the divorce petition to the district court (family benches where constituted — Unit 7): the petition's grounds-and-particulars; the mandatory reconciliation attempt (the court's first duty — the Code's conciliation stage); the interim orders (maintenance, custody-and-access pendente lite); the decree-and-its-terms (the property division, alimony, custody in the same decree); appeal to the High Court; the foreign-divorce recognition (the Civil Code's Article 706 — recognition of foreign decrees "in accordance with the law of Nepal": the Supreme Court's recognition-jurisprudence — the Sabina Pandey and Maria Victoria line of rulings setting the criteria — names only); 2. The judicial-committee route: the local level's Judicial Committee (the Constitution's Article 217 — Deputy Head/Deputy Mayor convening): the Local Government Operation Act 2074's schedule of family-and-local disputes — maintenance, small family disputes, and the reconciliation-first matters at the ward-and-village level (divorce itself remaining with the courts — the committees' mediation-and-orders role); the design's promise (access, cost, community proximity) and risks (the technical-capacity-and-patriarchy questions — Unit 7's full debate); 3. The prescribed jurisprudence for this unit: Krishna Serchan v. Padam Kumari Serchan (NKP 2067, Vol. 4, D.No. 8487) and the two Dr. Rajaram Karki v. Usha Karki rulings (NKP 2067, Vol. 4, D.No. 8487 and NKP 2070, Vol. 4, D.No. 9014) — the syllabus's prescribed matrimonial- relief decisions (read the reports for the…