# 74: Meri Kahani ft. Mrunalini Deshmukh, Renowned Lawyer

Mrunalini is a renowned lawyer with a professional experience in the field of Family Law for over two decades. In the past Mrunalini has been a professor of Constitutional Law at the K.C. College, Mumbai and taught post graduate students as a visiting faculty at the Department of Law, Mumbai University. She belongs to a family of jurists wherein her father Late Dr. T.K Tope was a Constitutional Expert and Professor of Constitutional Law who later rose to become Vice-Chancellor of Mumbai University. She has been invited to judge various prestigious moot court programs owing to her expertise in her field of practice. She has also addressed and contributed in writing towards issues of sexual harassment at the workplace and also regarding issues of safety of women and children. She has been invited as an expert by several MNC‘s on Committees to deal with Sexual Harassment Cases at Work Place. Mrunalini often participates and has addressed domestic and international conferences on issues relating to family law and structuring of wealth and alimony issues especially the laws governing women.  Mrunalini strongly believes in gender justice and is extremely sensitive about injustice and malpractices while actively propagating gender equality. She recently addressed an International Conference on Wealth Planning for Global Indian Families in Dubai, U.A.E. She has authored a book on Divorce “Breaking Up Your Step – by – Step Guide to Getting Divorced”. The book has an overview of the various laws with reference to marriage, divorce, child custody, Alimony, etc. with illustration of the cases personally handled by her. Mrunalini has also dealt with cross border cases relating to marriage, Validity of foreign court orders, Applicability of the Indian laws of Marriage and their effect, Cross border child custody cases, Effect and enforcement of foreign court orders, Validity and enforcement of Indian laws on child custody with specific reference to foreign court orders.Mrunalini has appeared and argued all the above in the trial courts as well as the Supreme Court of India  Listen to her experiences with law on Meri Kahani with Bhawana Somaaya You can follow us and leave us feedback on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @eplogmedia, For partnerships/queries send you can send us an email at [email protected]. If you like this show, please subscribe and leave us a review wherever you get your podcasts, so other people can find us. You can also find us on https://www.eplog.mediaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.