Jurisdiction of Courts
Under the Guardians and Wards Act, an application shall be made for appointing a person as guardian to the District Court having jurisdiction in the place where the minor ordinarily resides. However, with the establishment of Family Courts in India, the jurisdiction in matters connected with the appointment of guardian of the person of the minor now stands transferred to the Family Courts where ever such Family Courts are established. But with regard to the property of the minor, the District Court alone has jurisdiction. The application for appointment of a guardian is maintainable only in the Court in whose jurisdiction the minor ordinarily resides and the expression "ordinarily resides" connote a regularly settled home and not a place where the children are obliged to dwell by force of circumstances or compulsion of parent's employment.
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