Advise on divorce, custody, and maintenance on authority you can defend
Family practice turns on the right personal-law statute and the precedent that controls. Niyam reads the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, the Special Marriage Act, 1954, the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890, and the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 — and answers in plain English, every point cited to the provision or judgment it came from.
- Divorce, custody, maintenance, and succession authority cited to the source
- Match the right personal-law statute to the parties and the relief
- Good-law signals so an overruled precedent never reaches your petition
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Trusted by advocates and in-house teams across India
Grounded in India's personal-law sources
The shift
From matching the statute to arguing the section in hand
Family work rewards getting the personal law right for the parties, then finding the precedent that controls the relief. Niyam compresses the search without cutting the citation.
The old way
- Matching the parties to the right personal-law statute under deadline
- Keyword search that misses the custody judgment phrased differently
- Copying citations and fearing one's been distinguished or overruled
- A general chatbot that invents a confident but non-existent ruling
With Niyam for Family Law
- Ask in plain English; get the controlling provision and judgment in seconds
- Match the right personal-law statute to the parties and the relief sought
- Every proposition cited to the provision or judgment, good-law checked
- Grounded only in real Indian personal-law sources, never fabricated
Why Niyam for Family Law
Sensitivity in the matter, authority at the hearing
Family disputes are personal, but the relief is still decided on statute and precedent. Niyam gives you the authority fast, so you spend your time on the client and the strategy, not the law reports.
Divorce and judicial separation
Find the grounds and the controlling precedent on divorce, judicial separation, and irretrievable breakdown under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 and the Special Marriage Act, 1954.
Divorce precedent across courts
Custody and guardianship
Surface the authority on custody and guardianship under the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890, grounded in the welfare-of-the-child principle the courts apply.
Custody precedent on the welfare principle
Maintenance and alimony
Trace claims for interim and permanent maintenance and alimony to the relevant provisions and the judgments that measure quantum.
Maintenance & alimony precedent
Never cite overruled law
Before you build a petition or appeal on a precedent, Niyam shows whether later courts followed, distinguished, or overruled it — so you argue from good law.
Good-law signals on every cited case
Succession and inheritance
Trace questions of intestate succession and coparcenary rights to the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 and the judgments construing it, including the line on daughters' rights.
Hindu Succession Act, 1956 precedent
Domestic violence protection
Find the authority on protection, residence, and monetary orders under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005.
Domestic Violence Act, 2005 precedent
Plain-English answers
Ask the family-law question you actually have
Type the question the way you'd put it to a senior — 'what is the test for custody where both parents are working?' Niyam reads the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890 and the governing judgments and answers in plain English, the controlling authority shown alongside.
- Understands the legal issue, not just the keywords
- Answers grounded in the provision and judgments that govern it
- Citations sit beside the answer, one click from the source
Open every source
Citations you can open and check
Every proposition carries its authority. Open the cited section or judgment, read the exact paragraph, and confirm it says what Niyam says — because in a contested matter the source is the argument.
- Pinpoint citations to the section or paragraph
- Jump straight from the answer to the primary source
- Nothing to take on faith — verify before you rely
Good-law signals
Know a precedent is safe before you rely on it
Niyam surfaces how later courts have treated a judgment — followed, distinguished, referred, or overruled — so an overruled citation never reaches your petition or appeal. When the law has moved on, it points you to the authority that now governs.
- Treatment history across Supreme Court and High Courts
- Clear good-law / caution / overruled signals at a glance
- Jump from the signal to the judgment that set it
Whole-corpus search
Search 72,000+ judgments and the personal-law statutes
Behind every answer is the full corpus — the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, the Special Marriage Act, 1954, the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890, the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, and the judgments construing them — indexed so the case on point surfaces even when it's phrased differently from your query.
- Divorce, custody, maintenance, succession, and protection authority
- Finds the judgment on point even when the wording differs
- Filter by court and read the binding authority first
How it works
From a family matter to cited authority in three steps
Niyam compresses the research loop without ever cutting the citation.
Ask in plain English
Describe the parties, the relief, and the issue the way you'd brief a colleague. Niyam matches the right personal-law statute and reads the governing judgments to understand exactly what controls.
Get a cited answer
Every answer comes grounded in primary sources — sections and judgments — with citations you can open and verify yourself.
Verify and act
Read the source, confirm it's still good law, then draft the petition, reply, or grounds of appeal from it — without leaving Niyam.
- Indian judgments indexed
- 72,000+
- Marriage, succession & guardianship
- Personal law
- Cited to primary sources
- Every answer
- Signals on cited precedent
- Good-law
Built for trust
In a custody fight, the authority you cite has to be real
A confident answer you can't defend can shape a child's future on a false footing. Niyam for Family Law is engineered so every point traces back to a real provision or judgment you can open in court.
72,000+
Supreme Court & High Court judgments indexed
100%
of answers cited to primary sources
Good-law
treatment signals on cited precedent
Private
your matters are never sold or used to train public models
Niyam retrieves from real Indian personal-law sources rather than guessing, so it doesn't invent cases — and every answer links back to the section of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (or whichever personal-law statute applies), or the judgment it relied on. Your matters and queries stay private to your account, never sold and never used to train public models. The authority you take into a sensitive matter actually exists, and the source is always one click away.
How it compares
Why family lawyers research with Niyam, not a generic chatbot
A general AI can sound confident and still invent a custody case. Manual research is reliable but slow when a hearing is days away. Niyam gives you both speed and authority.
| Capability | Niyam | Generic AI chatbot | Manual research |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grounded in personal-law statutes | Marriage, Succession, Guardianship | Generic / global | Yes, but slow |
| Matches the right statute to parties | Yes | Unreliable | Manual |
| Every answer cited | Yes, to primary sources | Often uncited | Manual |
| Checks if a case is good law | Yes | No | Manual |
| Risk of invented cases | None — retrieval-grounded | High | None |
| Speed to authority | Seconds | Seconds (unreliable) | Hours |
FAQ
Questions, answered straight
Where Niyam helps — and where your professional judgment stays in charge.
Niyam is grounded in the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, the Special Marriage Act, 1954, the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890, and the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, together with the judgments of the Supreme Court and High Courts that construe them. You can match the right statute to the parties and move from a relief to the section and precedent that governs it.
Yes. Niyam surfaces the authority on custody and guardianship grounded in the welfare-of-the-child principle the courts apply, and on interim and permanent maintenance with the judgments that bear on quantum — each linked to the source so you cite the holding, not a headnote.
Yes. Niyam surfaces a judgment's treatment history — whether later courts have followed, distinguished, referred to, or overruled it — so you can see at a glance whether a family-law authority is safe to cite. When a judgment has been overruled, it points you to the authority that now governs.
Yes. Describe the matter and the issue in plain English and Niyam finds the authority by the legal question, not just the keywords — so it surfaces the divorce or succession case on point even when it is phrased differently from how you searched. You then open the judgment and confirm it.
No. Niyam provides legal information and research grounded in primary sources. It does not create an advocate–client relationship and does not replace advice from a qualified advocate. You remain responsible for confirming which personal law applies, verifying every citation, and exercising professional judgment.
Judgments of the Supreme Court and High Courts, plus the personal-law statutes — the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, the Special Marriage Act, 1954, the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890, and the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005. Coverage keeps expanding; the corpus already runs to more than 72,000 judgments alongside the statute book.
Yes. Your queries and saved research stay private to your account. Niyam is built for the confidentiality family matters demand — your work product is never sold and never used to train public models.
Research family law on the personal-law statutes — cited and good-law checked.
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