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Empowering Hindu Women by Way of Smart Marriages

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This article attempts to investigate the possibility of binding marriages as a way of smart contracts, thus empowering the Hindu women in India to sustain the financial hardships till some interim order is passed by the court in case of a matrimonial dispute. This work incorporated the opinions of marriage counsellors in estimating the time a woman might have to sustain herself without any financial support. The outcome of the proposed work is an expert system based on smart contracts deployed on the public blockchain network and a Mamdani-based fuzzy inference system to take decisions in an environment of ambiguity. The opinions of family counsellors are considered in generating the required knowledge base after perceptual computing. The model thus formed is calibrated on 70 matrimonial cases available in the public domain in various family courts in India. The model is then validated on another 30 dispute records. The results were insightful and approved the accuracy of the model against three other popular models, namely support vector machines (SVM), multiple linear regression (MLR), and artificial neural networks (ANN). The motivation behind this article lies in the fact that a large number of women, after being abandoned or denied maintenance by their husbands, are forced to live a life of destitution, as the legal remedies are time-consuming and often not affordable by the vulnerable gender of Indian society.

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Pandey, P. Empowering Hindu Women by Way of Smart Marriages. Wireless Pers Commun 133, 1081–1103 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-023-10805-6

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