The Supreme Court of India in A. Ranjithkumar v. E. Kavitha [1] reaffirmed its power to dissolve marriages on the ground of irretrievable breakdown, despite the absence of such a statutory provision in the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955. The Court invoked Article 142 of the Constitution to bring finality to a matrimonial dispute that had dragged on for more than a decade. The judgment is significant both for its equitable balancing of competing interests and for its reiteration of judicial creativity in family law.