6 Kitchen Separation and Reunion of Families

1. Kitchen separation (chulo-jalani / pak-ghar alag): the family's de facto partition — separate cooking-and-living as the separation's social proof; the legal questions: the separation's evidentiary weight (the Timilsina rule: an unregistered kitchen-separationpaper insufficient to establish legal partition — the formal deed-and-registration needed for the property severance; the social separation recognized for maintenance-and-household incidents without the property consequence); the partial-separation patterns (the chulo separated, the property joint — the half-way houses the courts police);2. Reunion (punar-milan): the separated family's reconstitution — the reunified kitchen-and- property (the old Ain's reunion-and-re-merger rules; the re-blending's property consequences: the re-created jointness, the revived manager's accounts); the modern practice's rarity (the sociological note) but the doctrine's exam relevance (the reunion's formalities-and- presumptions).