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Bangladesh Family Law Acts, Ordinances & Legal Sources
Use selected authoritative destinations and clearly scoped research records to locate a relevant provision. This is a private directory, not an official consolidation, exhaustive inventory or certification that every listed source is current and applicable.
Scope and How to Use This Statutory Directory
Identify the issue and relevant dates, then open the source and read the actual provision, qualifications and amendment notes. Check commencement, territory, personal-law context, rules, savings and judicial treatment as necessary before applying a proposition.
Source identity, contents retrieval, operative-provision inspection, legal-status review and individual applicability are separate checks. An accessible URL is not all five.
Find the Relevant Source Category
Courts and Procedure
Locate the special Family Courts Act, its territorial and procedural qualifications, and conditional civil-procedure references.
Open court-source recordsMarriage and Dissolution
Find community-specific instruments, registration sources, dissolution references and child-marriage safeguards.
Open marriage-source recordsFinancial Support and Protection
Distinguish dower, support for spouses or parents, overseas recovery candidates, dowry and protective legislation.
Open support and protection recordsChildren and Guardianship
Separate guardianship procedure and welfare provisions from child-justice and care legislation.
Open child-related recordsProperty, Succession and Waqf
Check personal-law scope, property categories, transfer formalities and estate or dedicated-property questions separately.
Open property and succession recordsLegal Aid and Historical Research
Review legal-aid sources, amendment leads and retained historical records without presuming present-day operation.
Open legal-aid recordsOpen historical and savings records
A Practical Source-Checking Method
- Identify the instrument: match the exact title, year, number and official source, not just a search label.
- Read the operative text: preserve provisos, explanations, exceptions, footnotes and historical markers.
- Check status: investigate amendments, commencement, repeal, replacement and savings relevant to the issue.
- Check coverage: consider territory, community, property type, dates, forum, rules and relevant notifications.
- Review judicial authority: identify the actual judgment, court, decision date, issue, authority limits and later treatment.
- Record the proposition separately: document what the inspected evidence supports and what remains unresolved before applying it to facts.
This is a research method, not a prescribed filing procedure or a guarantee that every listed check has been completed for every entry.
Verification Status Legend and Methodological Labels
- VERIFIED — CURRENT STATUS CONFIRMED: only for a defined, completed status check with as-of date and evidence. No source below receives this broad badge.
- VERIFIED — HISTORICAL OR REPEALED: only where the stated historical/repeal and savings evidence was inspected; scope and gaps remain explicit.
- PARTIALLY VERIFIED — FURTHER CHECK REQUIRED: identity, contents or selected operative text inspected, with missing checks stated.
- UNVERIFIED — REQUIRES LEGAL REVIEW: not supported by a sufficient check for reliance.
- CANDIDATE — RELEVANCE NOT YET CONFIRMED: discovery, historical or conditional research lead only.
Earlier baseline editorial and scoped source-retrieval notes refer to 25–26 October 2026, as specified in individual records. They are retained research history, not renewed checks in this banner revision. Older supplied index metadata remains provenance, not a substituted legal-review date. No candidate receives an invented operative-check date.
Selected Statutes at a Glance
This optional table is an editorial selection, not a ranking of importance or complete coverage. The source cards below remain the primary mobile-friendly directory.
Open the ten-source navigation table
| Source | Instrument identity | Directory record |
|---|---|---|
| Family Courts Act | 26 of 2023 | Procedure |
| Muslim Family Laws Ordinance | VIII of 1961 | Muslim provisions |
| Muslim marriage/divorce registration | LII of 1974 | Registration |
| Muslim judicial dissolution | VIII of 1939 | Dissolution |
| Hindu marriage registration | 40 of 2012 | Registration |
| Hindu separate residence/maintenance | XIX of 1946 | Maintenance |
| Guardians and Wards Act | VIII of 1890 | Guardianship |
| Domestic violence protection | 58 of 2010 | Protection |
| Children Act | 24 of 2013 | Children |
| Legal aid law | 6 of 2000 | Legal aid |
Family Courts, Jurisdiction and Judicial Procedure
পারিবারিক আদালত আইন, ২০২৩
PARTIALLY VERIFIED — FURTHER CHECK REQUIRED · Direct procedural relevance
Identity: Act 26 of 2023. Official operative text · section 5 jurisdiction.
Prior inspected scope: sections addressing territorial extent, listed jurisdiction, venue, trial stages, execution, appeals, interim orders, fees, Muslim decree effectiveness, guardianship procedure, special evidence/CPC rules and repeal/savings.
Important distinctions recorded: pre-trial section 11; in-camera section 12; court fee section 25; guardianship interaction section 27; special procedure section 28; repeal/savings section 30. Section 1’s reproduced territorial exception must not be omitted.
Gaps: full subsequent amendments, rules, Gazette/local arrangements and judicial treatment. Detailed practical discussion belongs in FL-05.
The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
PARTIALLY VERIFIED — FURTHER CHECK REQUIRED · Conditional ancillary source
Identity: Act V of 1908. Official text and identity retrieved in the earlier baseline. Family-court applicability must follow the special Act, not generic civil-court assumptions.
The earlier inspected 2023 Act section 28 excludes the Evidence Act and CPC other than CPC sections 10–11 unless otherwise provided by the Act or rules; specific execution and guardianship provisions require separate attention. No blanket application of Order V or Order XXXII is certified here.
Marriage Formation, Registration and Dissolution
The Muslim Family Laws Ordinance, 1961
PARTIALLY VERIFIED — FURTHER CHECK REQUIRED · Muslim-specific source
Identity: Ordinance VIII of 1961. Official text and amendment notes.
Prior inspected scope: selected definitions and sections 4, 6–10; section 5’s omission marker. Section 4 is a specific succession modification; sections 7–8 contain qualifications that must not be flattened into one universal dissolution procedure.
Gaps: complete current status, rules, later amendments, judicial treatment and case applicability. One authoritative record serves the marriage, support and succession topic references.
The Muslim Marriages and Divorces (Registration) Act, 1974
PARTIALLY VERIFIED — FURTHER CHECK REQUIRED
Identity: Act LII of 1974. Official contents · section 3 · section 5.
Prior inspected scope: registration requirement, reporting/registration distinction and the displayed 2005 substitution note. Gaps: divorce-registration provisions, forms, fees, rules, full amendments and individual applicability.
The Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act, 1939
PARTIALLY VERIFIED — FURTHER CHECK REQUIRED · Identity and contents only
Identity: Act VIII of 1939. Official source. Operative grounds and their qualifications were not reviewed for this draft; no entitlement to a decree is inferred from a contents heading.
হিন্দু বিবাহ নিবন্ধন আইন, ২০১২
PARTIALLY VERIFIED — FURTHER CHECK REQUIRED
Identity: Act 40 of 2012. Official operative text. Selected sections 3, 6, 10 and 12 were inspected in the earlier baseline, including non-registration’s stated effect on validity, registration after performance and record access/copies.
Gaps: full current status, rules and individual applicability. Registration does not itself establish a general dissolution route.
The Christian Marriage Act, 1872
PARTIALLY VERIFIED — FURTHER CHECK REQUIRED · Identity/contents
Identity: Act XV of 1872. Official source. Actual formation, registrar/solemnization procedure, exceptions, amendments and individual applicability need review.
The Special Marriage Act, 1872
PARTIALLY VERIFIED — FURTHER CHECK REQUIRED · Identity/preamble/contents
Identity: Act III of 1872. Official source. The reproduced preamble specifies categories; do not label this a universal interfaith route. Operative eligibility, declarations and procedure require review.
The Divorce Act, 1869
PARTIALLY VERIFIED — FURTHER CHECK REQUIRED · Identity/contents
Identity: Act IV of 1869. Official source. Scope, operative grounds, procedure and current amendments remain unchecked.
বাল্যবিবাহ নিরোধ আইন, ২০১à§
PARTIALLY VERIFIED — FURTHER CHECK REQUIRED · Conditional marriage/protective source
Identity: Act 6 of 2017. Official operative text. Selected section 2 definitions and section 19 special-provision wording were inspected in the earlier baseline. A conditional provision must not be presented as permission to bypass child safeguards.
Gaps: rules, complete operative context, amendments and applicability. No unreviewed penalty or exception-application template is supplied.
Dower, Maintenance, Protection and Related Penal Law
Use the single Muslim Family Laws Ordinance record for sections 9–10 rather than duplicating that law.
The Hindu Married Women's Right to Separate Residence and Maintenance Act, 1946
PARTIALLY VERIFIED — FURTHER CHECK REQUIRED
Identity: Act XIX of 1946. Official operative source. Selected sections 2–3 were inspected in the earlier baseline: grounds and proviso must be read together; amount involves stated factors. Later law, judicial treatment and applicability remain for review.
পিতা-মাতার à¦à¦°à¦£-পোষণ আইন, ২০১৩
PARTIALLY VERIFIED — FURTHER CHECK REQUIRED
Identity: Act 49 of 2013. Official text · section 7 forum/cognizance. Selected definitions and sections 3–4, 7–8 were inspected in the earlier baseline. Do not apply spouse-maintenance procedure by analogy.
Gaps: full current status, rules, amendments and individual applicability.
যৌতুক নিরোধ আইন, ২০১৮
PARTIALLY VERIFIED — FURTHER CHECK REQUIRED · Supporting penal source
Identity: Act 39 of 2018. Official operative text. Selected section 2 definition/exclusions, offence headings and section 10 repeal/savings were inspected in the earlier baseline. The definition excludes specified dower and gift matters; do not equate Denmohor with every alleged dowry demand.
Gaps: full later changes, procedure, judicial interpretation and facts needed for any offence or remedy analysis.
Overseas Maintenance Candidates
CANDIDATE — RELEVANCE NOT YET CONFIRMED · Conditional ancillary sources
- The Claims for Maintenance (Recovery Abroad) Ordinance, 1959 — index Ordinance L, 1959.
- The Maintenance Orders Enforcement Act, 1921 — index Act XVIII, 1921.
These remain separate law records. Current operation, participating territory, reciprocity and procedure were not checked; no cross-border recovery is promised.
পারিবারিক সহিংসতা (প্রতিরোধ ও সুরক্ষা) আইন, ২০১০
PARTIALLY VERIFIED — FURTHER CHECK REQUIRED · Protective source
Identity: Act 58 of 2010. Official text. Selected application/protection provisions, including sections 11–14, were inspected in the earlier baseline. Orders are conditional, not guaranteed.
Gaps: full eligibility/definitions, other order types, forum, rules, later changes and applicability.
Nari-o-Shishu Nirjatan Daman Ain, 2000
CANDIDATE — RELEVANCE NOT YET CONFIRMED
Identified in the owner-supplied blueprint as a possible penal-protection source. Its primary-source identity, current amendments, precise relevance and competent forum were not inspected for this draft; no guessed official link, offence or punishment is published here.
Children, Guardianship and Care
The Guardians and Wards Act, 1890
PARTIALLY VERIFIED — FURTHER CHECK REQUIRED
Identity: Act VIII of 1890. Official contents · operative section 17. Selected welfare factors and intelligent-preference wording were inspected in the earlier baseline. Section 27 of the 2023 Act also requires specific attention to this Act’s procedure.
Gaps: other operative sections, full rules/amendments, judicial treatment and individual outcome. No automatic custody ages are certified.
শিশু আইন, ২০১৩
PARTIALLY VERIFIED — FURTHER CHECK REQUIRED · Identity/contents only
Identity: index Act 24 of 2013. Official contents. Protection/juvenile-justice questions should not be conflated with every ordinary custody dispute. Operative provisions, rules, amendments and applicability remain for review.
Property, Succession, Wills and Waqf
The Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act, 1937
PARTIALLY VERIFIED — FURTHER CHECK REQUIRED · Selected operative provisions
Identity: Act XXVI of 1937. Official operative text. Section 2’s rule-of-decision wording and exceptions, including its agricultural-land saving and specified waqf qualifications, were inspected in the earlier baseline. Section 3’s prescribed declaration mechanism adds adoption, wills and legacies for the persons described there; it is not a universal shortcut to decide every will or property question.
Gaps: full current-status chain, rules, judicial treatment and individual applicability. Prior scoped provision refresh: 25 October 2026. The title alone does not establish every doctrine.
The Hindu Women's Rights to Property Act, 1937
PARTIALLY VERIFIED — FURTHER CHECK REQUIRED
Identity: Act XVIII of 1937. Official operative text · section 3. Selected sections 1–5 were inspected in the earlier baseline, including intestacy, school/property distinctions, widow provisions, limited interest under the section, exclusions and pre-commencement saving.
Gaps: complete later law, territorial/property interactions, judgments and applicability. It does not establish a universal limited interest for all property held by every Hindu woman.
The Hindu Women's Rights to Property (Extension to Agricultural Land) Act, 1943 (Assam Act)
CANDIDATE — RELEVANCE NOT YET CONFIRMED · Historical/territorial check required
Index identity: Act XIII, 1943. Dataset-supplied destination. Territory, operative text, legal status and applicability remain unresolved. Do not generalize the Assam description into a nationwide rule.
The Succession Act, 1925
PARTIALLY VERIFIED — FURTHER CHECK REQUIRED · Identity/contents only
Identity: Act XXXIX of 1925. Official source. Applicable Parts, exclusions, probate and administration require operative inspection. It is not a uniform share code for all communities.
The Transfer of Property Act, 1882
PARTIALLY VERIFIED — FURTHER CHECK REQUIRED · Selected provision
Identity: Act IV of 1882. Official section 123 was inspected in the earlier baseline, including the immovable-gift registered-instrument requirement, immovable-heba paragraph and displayed 2004 amendment note.
Gaps: transaction-date application, other requirements, later amendments and judicial interpretation. No historical transfer is adjudicated by this entry.
The Registration Act, 1908
PARTIALLY VERIFIED — FURTHER CHECK REQUIRED · Selected provision
Identity: Act XVI of 1908. Official section 17 was inspected in relevant part in the earlier baseline, including gift instruments, declaration of heba, declaration of gift under specified other personal laws, and inherited-property partition instruments.
Gaps: relevant dates, exceptions, complete amendments, procedure and case applicability. Registration does not prove every underlying validity requirement.
The Waqfs Ordinance, 1962 (East Pakistan Ordinance)
PARTIALLY VERIFIED — FURTHER CHECK REQUIRED · Prior selected-provision retrieval recorded 26 October 2026
Index identity: Ordinance I, 1962. Dataset-supplied destination retained · Readable official print text.
Prior scoped inspection: section 2 includes definitions of waqf and mutawalli; section 3 concerns application; section 47 addresses enrolment; and sections 56–57A contain transfer-related controls and qualifications. This is not a conclusion that a particular property is waqf or that a proposed transaction is valid.
Gaps: complete amendment and current-status review, subordinate rules, administrative directions, transaction dates and case-specific applicability remain outstanding. The earlier details-view encoding problem was resolved through the official print view.
For the selected statutory succession provision, use the single section 4 Ordinance record. No inheritance shares are calculated here.
Legal Aid, Evidence and Ancillary Legislation
আইনগত সহায়তা প্রদান আইন, ২০০০
PARTIALLY VERIFIED — FURTHER CHECK REQUIRED
Identity: Act 6 of 2000. Correct official consolidated source. Identity and selected amended institutional text were inspected in the earlier baseline; the owner blueprint’s alternative destination did not match this law.
Gaps: complete amendment/commencement chain, operative ADR provisions, schedule, rules, Gazette dates/areas and individual eligibility or entitlement. Do not promise universal pre-case mediation or funding.
আইনগত সহায়তা প্রদান (সংশোধন) অধ্যাদেশ, ২০২৫
PARTIALLY VERIFIED — FURTHER CHECK REQUIRED · Amendment instrument
Identity: Ordinance 35 of 2025. Official instrument · section 11 insertion. Earlier scoped inspection covered section 1(2)’s notification-dependent operation for specified inserted provisions and the schedule.
Unresolved: later instruments, current consolidated effect and local coverage. An amendment instrument must not replace a current parent-law and Gazette check.
Evidence, oaths, limitation, court fees, authentication and document law may be relevant. Their actual interaction with special family procedure must be checked; absence from this selected directory does not establish irrelevance.
Historical Register: Amendments, Repeals and Savings
The Family Courts Ordinance, 1985 [Repealed]
VERIFIED — HISTORICAL OR REPEALED · Prior scoped repeal evidence recorded 25 October 2026
Recorded evidence: section 30 of the 2023 Act expressly repeals Ordinance XVIII of 1985 and includes savings for specified acts, instruments and pending proceedings. The prior check covers that repeal/savings provision, not the whole subsequent transitional history; it was not renewed in this banner revision.
Historical source destination retained. For an older case, inspect the actual saving and proceeding dates; do not treat every prior step as void or every old procedure as presently applicable.
Other Index-Marked Historical Leads
CANDIDATE — RELEVANCE NOT YET CONFIRMED · Index markers only
- The Children Act, 1974 [Repealed] — original index marker preserved.
- The Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929 [Repealed] — original index marker preserved.
These remain distinct historical records. Their operative repeal/savings evidence was not reviewed here; no verified-historical badge is inferred from the index alone.
Selected Change-Evidence Log
- 2004: displayed Transfer of Property amendment note for section 123; full commencement and later chain not audited.
- 2005: displayed substitution note for registration Act section 5; full amending instrument not audited.
- 2023: Family Courts Act section 30 repeal and savings text inspected in the earlier baseline.
- 2025: legal-aid amendment instrument inspected within the scope stated above; later law and territorial notifications unresolved.
No Gazette number, date of an uninspected notification or completed amendment chain is invented. This is not a complete chronological register.
Separate Provenance and Legal-Proposition Registers
Dataset records retain original references and anomalies separately from the editorial proposition and source check. Duplicate title cleanup is not silent deletion of provenance. An empty amendment field or unknown commencement date is not evidence of no amendment or no operation.
Research FAQs and Reporting Source Corrections
Does an accessible bdlaws link prove current unamended law?
No. Establish identity and inspection depth, then check the necessary amendment, commencement, status and applicability evidence.
How should an unverified notification be handled?
Record the source claim and missing primary document. Seek the actual Gazette text and verify its scope, date and later changes; do not mark it confirmed from a secondary mention.
Why are historical sources kept?
They may matter for earlier events or savings questions. Their presence is not a representation that they govern a current matter.
What is needed for a judgment record?
Identify court, case details, decision date, reliable text, legal issue and authority/status limits. No unverified landmark holding is included in this directory.
How can I report a problem?
Identify the entry, exact source link and specific issue. Do not submit confidential client or child records in a public correction request.
Related Practical Guides
Family Law & Divorce Services Hub routes marriage/divorce (FL-02), financial preparation (FL-03), children/protection (FL-04), procedure (FL-05) and Muslim research (FL-07). Their separate destinations are not activated in this directory revision because their publication and contents have not been independently checked here.
Personal Hindu Family Law in Bangladesh is an existing owner-supplied library destination; preserve its chapters and its Appendix A source-correction warning.
Scoped Source-Refresh and Correction Log
The earlier baseline records selected official-text retrieval on 26 October 2026 for the 2023 Family Courts Act, 1961 MFLO, 1974 registration Act, Guardians and Wards section 17, 2000 legal-aid law, 2013 parents’ maintenance law, 2010 domestic-violence law, 2018 dowry law, 2012 Hindu-registration law, 1946 separate-maintenance law, 1937 Hindu-property section 3, 1937 Shariat Application Act and Transfer of Property section 123. The baseline also records readable official print text of the Waqfs Ordinance after a details-view encoding problem. Those are retained inspection-history notes, not new retrievals performed for this banner and publishing-pack revision.
Such scoped checks support only the identified provisions. They do not certify every amendment, commencement instrument, rule, local notification, territorial issue, judgment or individual application. Existing register records retain their separate provenance and earlier inspection history.
- Distinguish source identity, operative text inspection, current legal status and individual applicability.
- Obtain the current legal-aid notification and geographic or scheduled-dispute coverage before stating a pre-case mediation requirement.
- Keep the uploaded statute list as a supplemental input, not grounds for deleting historical records or source-provenance comments.
PARTIALLY VERIFIED — FURTHER CHECK REQUIRED. Targeted source retrieval is not a completeness audit. Reconciliation with the earlier full FL-08 baseline remains pending.
Professional Consultation & Legal Review
For a case-specific review, contact AFZAL AND ASSOCIATES at advafzalhosen@gmail.com with a brief description of the issue and any relevant court date. Do not send sensitive identity, financial or child-related records until a suitable sharing method has been agreed. Assistance is subject to conflict checking, scope review and an agreed engagement.
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