According to Section 2(s), a household where the woman alleging violencelives or at any stage or any point of time in a domestic relationship, eithersingly or along with the respondent, is defined as a "shared household". Theperiod of cohabitation has not been specified before a house can be considered a"shared household". This provision is a clear example of overkill and leavesa lot of scope for misuse.
This applies whether the household is owned ortenanted, either jointly by the person aggrieved and the respondent, or byeither of them, where either the person aggrieved or the respondent or bothjointly or singly have any right, title, interest or equity. This allows eventhose women with whom a live-in relationship was terminated months or years agoto claim maintenance, compensation and right of residence from the male partner,thus opening the gates wide open for bizarre claims by women who at some pointmay have spent few weeks living with a man before his marriage.
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