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Section 13B requires one year of separate living and a joint petition; the first motion places the settlement on record and the second, after the statutory gap, yields the decree. The Family Court, Gurugram, sitting in the district court complex, applies the Supreme Court's Amardeep Singh v. Harveen Kaur (2017) framework to waive the six-month cooling-off period where the separation is already long, mediation has failed or is pointless, and every issue stands settled — well-prepared Gurugram matters with waiver can conclude within weeks. Territorial jurisdiction offers three anchors: where the marriage was solemnised, where the spouses last resided together, or where the wife now resides — so a couple whose married home was a Gurugram apartment files here even if the wedding happened elsewhere.

Gurugram's demographics shape the practice. With one spouse frequently posted in Singapore, London or the US, the Family Court, Gurugram permits appearance through video-conference for recorded motions, and matters are calendared so an NRI spouse needs one trip to India at most — though the judge must hear free consent from each spouse at both stages, and that cannot be delegated. Inter-faith and civil marriages registered under the Special Marriage Act dissolve by the parallel two-motion route under Section 28 of that Act before the same court. Where one side initially resists, the mediation centre at the Gurugram district court regularly converts contested petitions into consent packages — often the cheapest and quickest path to the same decree.

The economics are settled before the law is. Gurugram settlements price permanent alimony against corporate compensation — base salary, bonuses, ESOPs and vested RSUs — and the deed must define the one-time figure as a full and final discharge of all maintenance claims, past and future. It should also sequence payment across the two motions, fix custody and a visitation calendar with school-term precision, list the stridhan and jewellery being returned, and provide for closure of every pending proceeding: withdrawal of maintenance and Domestic Violence Act cases before the Gurugram courts, and quashing of a 498A FIR by the Punjab & Haryana High Court at Chandigarh on the strength of the settlement. Since either spouse may resile before the decree, the deed's staging — not its length — is its real protection.