Post a debateShould India have one common set of family laws (marriage, divorce, inheritance) for everyone, instead of different laws per religion? | twosydes
Article 44 of India's Constitution lists a Uniform Civil Code as a Directive Principle, and legal researchers note that under current personal law a Hindu, Muslim, and Christian woman can each face different inheritance and divorce rights purely by birth, which sits uneasily against the equality guaranteed under Article 14.