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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has ruled that family courts cannot delay grant of maintenance to an estranged wife and said there was no escape for a husband from the responsibility of giving sustenance money to his wife despite soured relations. Dealing with a case where grant of maintenance had been delayed by nine years,

Section 13B of Hindu Marriage Act provides for a cooling period of six months on the first motion being moved, in the event the parties changed their minds during the said period. Accordingly, after the initial motion and the presentation of the petition for mutual divorce, the parties are required to wait for a period

 Dear Fellow Advocate,                It’s been 23 years since my divorce and there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t recall that gloomy period of time.  You know the feeling! What could have been, what should have been???  Etc. etc.…. I have often speculated about what my divorce would have been like had