NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has ruled that a woman who is employed, holds the same professional standing as her husband, and is financially independent is not entitled to maintenance from her estranged spouse. A bench comprising Justices Abhay S. Ok...
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While opposing maintenance claims, a husband will have to prove that the wife had given up on a profession just for the sake of seeking maintenance, the Court said. The Punjab and Haryana High Court recently held that a wife cannot be prevented from ...
Read MoreThe Court rejected the man’s argument that since he was already married, the woman could not claim the benefits of the DV Act for a live-in relationship. The Chhattisgarh High Court recently confirmed an order requiring a man to pay maintenance...
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The Delhi High Court recently noted that a husband’s cohabitation with another woman and fathering a child with her subjects the wife to domestic violence under the Domestic Violence Act. Justice Subramonium Prasad made this observation while d...
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The Delhi High Court recently ruled that a wife cannot be denied maintenance simply because she seeks a divorce after separating from her husband for legitimate reasons. Justice Amit Mahajan also stressed that a wife’s educational background al...
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The Holy Quran says that the husband to look after his wife and children, especially in case they are in disablement condition, the Karnataka High Court said recently. It said this while rejecting a petition filed by a Muslim man against a maintenanc...
Read MoreA Mumbai court recently rejected the man’s argument to reduce the maintenance money payable to his estranged wife While rejecting the man’s argument to exclude the money used for his wife’s pet dogs expense from payable maintenance,...
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A wife who was in a job earlier, can’t sit at home and seek entire maintenance from her estranged husband to keep her life going smoothly instead she should also make efforts to earn something for her livelihood and thus reducing dependency on ...
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While considering the grant of stay of the interim maintenance order passed under section 125 of CrPC, the Delhi High Court has observed that a revisional court cannot put a general direction of depositing the entire maintenance amount by keeping asi...
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The sessions court refused to grant relief to the wife as she was earning way more than her husband. The wife had asked for maintenance and an increased amount for the rearing of the child. The husband had alleged the child not to be his child. The c...
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