Short answers on courts, timelines, documents and consultations across Mumbai and Navi Mumbai. General information about the law, not advice on your matter.
Consultations, documents, timelines and fees.
Call or send a message describing the matter and what has happened so far. You will be told which office to come to, what papers to bring and when a consultation can be held. Consultations run at the Kurla, Andheri and Vashi offices, or online.
Bring whatever exists in writing: agreements, notices received or sent, bank memos, society correspondence, police papers, and any court order already passed. A first consultation is far more useful with the actual documents than with a description of them.
Yes. Property, title, co-operative society and redevelopment matters are handled across all four localities, from the office nearest the court or authority the matter goes before — Kurla West, Andheri East or Vashi.
It depends on the forum. A Section 138 cheque bounce complaint commonly runs one to three years; a deemed conveyance application before the Deputy Registrar is measured in months; a contested civil suit takes longer. An estimate for your matter is given once the papers are seen.
Yes. The firm both advises — opinions, drafting, due diligence, notices, registration work — and appears in court. A good deal of work is finished at the advisory stage without a matter ever being filed.
Yes, and it is usually the better order. Advice before filing establishes whether a claim is within limitation, which forum has jurisdiction, what evidence exists and whether a notice may resolve the matter without proceedings.
Yes. Consultations can be held by video or telephone, with documents shared in advance. This is how most matters for clients outside Mumbai, and for non-resident Indians, are handled.
Fees depend on the forum, the stage and the work involved. They are discussed at the first consultation and confirmed in writing before any work begins, so nothing is billed that was not agreed.
Matters before the Bombay High Court and courts and authorities across Maharashtra are handled, including Thane and Navi Mumbai. For a forum elsewhere, you will be told plainly if the matter is better placed with someone local to it.
Send a short description of the matter through the consultation form or on WhatsApp. You will get a written acknowledgement setting out the papers to keep ready and the next available consultation slot.
The six situations people arrive with most often, and what decides each one.
A legal notice sets a period to reply, commonly 15 or 30 days. Replying on the record matters, because a notice left unanswered is produced later as an admission. Read what is actually alleged, check whether the claim is within limitation, and reply in writing within the time given.
Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act runs on fixed timelines: a demand notice within 30 days of the bank's memo, 15 days for the drawer to pay, and a complaint within the 30 days after that. Miss a step and the complaint is not maintainable, however good the claim is.
Before any member signs: check whether the society holds conveyance, whether the developer's offer matches the resolution actually passed, what carpet area and corpus are promised in writing, and whether the project is registered under RERA. A development agreement is difficult to undo once executed.
Property disputes turn on the paper. The chain of title, what the society's records show, whether the promoter ever executed conveyance, and what the registered agreement actually says are examined first — because together they decide whether there is a case and which forum hears it.
Divorce, maintenance, custody and protection proceedings are heard by the Family Court for the place where the parties last resided together, or where the respondent resides. Interim maintenance and custody can be sought while the main petition is still pending.
Anticipatory bail may be applied for before arrest, and that application is made to the Sessions Court or to the High Court. What decides it at that stage is what the FIR alleges and the documents that can be placed on record, not the account given afterwards.
Which forum hears a matter, by where it arises.
Yes. Sharlex Law LLP has an office at Bismillah Building, Room No. 2, Takiyaward, Fish Market Lane, opposite the Kurla Metropolitan Magistrate's Court, Kurla West, Mumbai 400070 — the landmark is Amar Seva Mandal. It is open Monday to Saturday, 10:30 to 19:00, and consultations are by appointment.
A complaint under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act arising in Kurla is ordinarily filed before the Metropolitan Magistrate's Court at Kurla. The complaint must be filed within one month of the payment period in the statutory notice expiring.
Often, yes. Many society disputes are decided by the Deputy Registrar of Co-operative Societies or the Co-operative Court rather than a civil court, and a number are settled at the notice stage once the society's own records and bye-laws are examined.
Yes. A Metropolitan Magistrate's Court sits at Kannamwar Nagar, Vikhroli East. Criminal complaints and Section 138 cheque bounce matters arising within its jurisdiction are filed there.
Yes. The firm has an office in Vikhroli East — Adarsh CHS Ltd., Building No. 54, Shop No. 3/A, Tagore Nagar Group No. 7, opposite the MTNL building, Mumbai 400083. It is open Monday to Saturday, 10:30 to 19:00, and the first consultation can be held there or online.
Before anything is signed: the society's title and conveyance position, whether the developer's offer matches the resolution actually passed, the carpet area and corpus terms in writing, and the project's RERA registration. A development agreement is difficult to undo once executed.
Shop No. 9, Navkar Complex, Andheri East Station Road, opposite the Andheri court, Andheri East, Mumbai 400069. It is a short walk from the east exit of Andheri station and is open Monday to Saturday, 10:30 to 19:00.
Complaints under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act arising in Andheri are filed before the Andheri Metropolitan Magistrate's Court. Jurisdiction ordinarily follows the branch of the bank where the payee presented the cheque for collection.
Yes. Writ petitions, appeals and revisions are filed and argued in the Bombay High Court, and the Andheri office is the firm's base for that work along with sessions matters at Dindoshi.
Office No. 273, Satra Plaza, Phase 2, Sector 19D, Vashi, Navi Mumbai 400705 — the firm's registered office, about twelve minutes on foot from Vashi station, open Monday to Saturday, 10:30 to 19:00.
Yes, where the promoter has failed to execute conveyance. The society applies to the District Deputy Registrar under Section 11 of the Maharashtra Ownership Flats Act. A CIDCO lease adds a transfer-permission step but does not by itself bar the application.
At the Joint Sub-Registrar office within whose jurisdiction the property lies — Vashi, Belapur, Kopar Khairane or Nerul in Thane district, or Panvel in Raigad district. Stamp duty is ₹200 under Article 52 of the Maharashtra Stamp Act where the property is ancestral and a legal heir releases a share without payment; otherwise it is charged as a conveyance on the share released. The deed is presented within four months of execution.
Civil suits from Vashi are ordinarily filed at the Belapur Court, while magistrate and matrimonial matters go before the Vashi Court. Society disputes go to the Co-operative Court or the Deputy Registrar rather than a civil court.
Most are not, because most turn on facts. Describe what has happened and you will be told which area it falls under, which office runs it, and what papers to bring.
