On Monday, the Punjab and Haryana High Court directed all family courts in the state to insist on affidavit of assets, income & expenditure in all matrimonial cases, to avoid unnecessary burden on wives seeking maintenance.
“The best practices should always be followed particularly if the same are for furtherance of efficient and effective justice dispensation. Furnishing of such [income] affidavits would check the practice of playing “hide and seek” game in such cases where an attempt is made by a party to conceal the income and not come out with resources forcing the other party to make tiring efforts to collect information which would otherwise be readily available with such party,” Justice Gurvinder Singh Gill held.
