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, andthe 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);The syllabus prescribes a case for this section; its citation and holding are withheld until verified.