Sharad Kumar Sharma, J.

1. The situation, which has arisen in the instant case, ought not to have been chanced, being a situation which has resulted into filing of a suit for dissolution of marriage after 22 years of marriage which was solemnized as back as on 10th May, 1989. What is astonishing is not only the age of marriage but also the age of children who were born out of the wedlock. At the time, when the proceedings was initiated, the parties to the matrimony had four children. The eldest daughter, Ranjita, was 19 years of age, Km. Ruchi, the second daughter, was 17 years of age, Km. Anjali, the third daughter, was 11 years of age and Dipanshu, was 9 years of age.

2. Looking to the age of the children, they themselves, have attained the majority or some of them were on the verge of attaining majority and were of marriageable age. The nature of the controversy, which was gradually germinated between the husband and wife, would be having a very tortuous impact on the future of the children in their personal and social life, their attitude towards life and their future, and, since parties to the marriage, being matured old husband and wife, they should have, before stepp