Rebuilding Stability Through Support and Legal Advocacy

When the Children Vanished

Meena and her husband had informally separated; she kept their younger child with her mother while he cared for their older one, and the two met daily at the same school. When the pandemic cost Meena her work, she moved to Chennai for a job, leaving her younger child with him for the time being. On a visit home, she found both children gone, along with her husband — no one in town would say where. He had also moved cities, putting the case in a new legal jurisdiction, and the travel and uncertainty piled financial and emotional strain onto an already frightening situation.

How Shakti Public Charitable Trust Helped

Counselling helped Meena steady herself before she had to make any decisions, and an experienced family lawyer laid out her options for divorce and custody. The legal team chose a careful, confidential strategy suited to the custody dispute, and opened a line of negotiation with her husband that led him to agree to visitation rights.

Back in Their Lives

Meena now has consistent, secured visitation and is actively present in her children's lives again. The siblings stayed together in one stable home, kept their school and routines intact, and the family reached a resolution built around what was best for the children.

Names and personal details have been changed to protect the identities involved.

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