IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 20.05.2026 Jyoti .… Petitioner Versus Pankaj Kumar .... Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE NIDHI GUPTA Present: - Mr. Mohit Rathee, Advocate for the petitioner.

NIDHI GUPTA, J. (ORAL)

1. By way of filing the present petition, the petitioner-wife is seeking transfer of petition filed by respondent-husband under Section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (for short-‘the Act’) bearing No. HMA/375/2024 (Annexure P-1) titled as ‘Jyoti vs. Pankaj Kumar’ pending before the learned Family Court, Panchkula to the Family Court at Sonipat.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner, inter alia, submits as under:

i) Marriage of the petitioner with the respondent was solemnized on 27.06.2012.

ii) Two children i.e. one daughter (born on 01.10.2014)

and one son (born on 01.10.2018) were born out of the said wedlock, who are presently in the care and custody of the petitioner-mother.

iii) Due to matrimonial discord the parties are residing separately since 10.06.2024.

iv) The petitioner has no source of income and is residing at her parental home in Sonipat.

v) The distance between place of residence of the petitioner-wife i.e. Sonipat a