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Because so many Vadodara spouses are salaried employees of large industrial and public-sector employers, income is provable from salary slips, Form 16, and provident-fund records. That has made the Supreme Court's framework in Rajnesh v. Neha, which requires both parties to file affidavits of assets and income, unusually effective here — interim maintenance is often decided on documents rather than on contested estimates of undisclosed earnings.

The Family Court at Vadodara hears divorce, judicial separation, restitution, custody, and guardianship. Mutual-consent divorce follows the two-motion structure under Section 13B with a six-month statutory gap between motions, which the court may waive where the parties have been separated for a long period and the settlement is genuinely complete, applying the Supreme Court's guidance in Amardeep Singh.

Transferable employment complicates custody. Where one parent's job moves them between cities or states, workable arrangements need to address school continuity, travel costs, and video contact, and a consent order that anticipates a transfer avoids returning to court each time one occurs. Domestic-violence proceedings run separately before the Magistrate, so settlements are structured to close every parallel proceeding at once.