The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday declared categorically that there could be no compromise on the rights of children.
In a five-page verdict, penned down by Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani, which is being described as a judicial precedent, the judge declared the agreement signed to deprive a child of his right to inherit the property null and void.
The judge wrote that the rights of a minor could not be snatched from him or her with the mutual consent of his or her parents, and that as per the Islamic law, bearing the expenditures of a child is binding on his or her father.
The high court also asked family courts not to recognize those compromises or agreements which infringed upon the rights of a minor, and added that it was obligatory on courts to intervene if the rights of a minor were being encroached upon.
The court declared controversial conditions related to the rights of a child null and void and something which could not be enforced.
The judge authored the verdict on the petition filed by a citizen named Muhammad Waleed Arshad.
