Leges Juris attorneys are regularly filing, drafting and contesting the mutual contest divorce for their clients. earlier law was that if parties wants to file their mutual consent divorce then normally courts used to give two motions for the period of one year (every motion with six months) but now after passing the judgments of supreme court of India most of courts started dissolve the marriage after presentation of petition on same day or within week its depends on court.mutual consent divorce can be file jointly by the parties but minimum separation period may be one year atleast.

13-B. Divorce by mutual consent.-(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act a petition for dissolution of marriage by a decree of divorce may be presented to the District Court by both the parties to a marriage together, whether such marriage was solemnized before or after the commencement of the Marriage Laws (Amendment) Act, 1976, on the ground that they have been living separately for a period of one year or more, that they have not been able to live together and that they have mutually agreed that the marriage should be dissolved.

(2) On the motion of both the parties made earlier than six months after the date of the presentation of the petition referred to in sub-section (1) and not later than eighteen months after the said date, if the petition is not withdrawn in the mean time, the Court shall, on being satisfied, after hearing the parties and after making such inquiry as it thinks fit, that a marriage has been solemnized and that the averments in the petition are true, pass a decree of divorce declaring the marriage to be dissolved with effect from the date of the decree.