Rejecting a woman’s plea for maintenance from her estranged husband, metropolitan magistrate Pooja Talwar said: “The complainant is a well-educated lady who had been earning approximately Rs 50,000 per month from her last job. If she has chosen not to work… she cannot be permitted to take advantage of her own deed.” The court, which

An educated woman who is capable of maintaining herself but quits her job voluntarily, is not entitled to alimony from her estranged husband, the Delhi High Court has held. Justice Pratibha Rani dismissed the woman’s plea, which had challenged a lower court’s order denying her maintenance on the ground that she was well-qualified and working

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/dubai-unemployed-indian-man-kills-wife-to-avoid-paying-her-alimony-arrested/424146-2.html A jobless Indian man in Dubai allegedly strangled his wife to death with the help of his Pakistani friend because he could not afford paying her alimony after divorcing her. The 23-year-old man, identified only as AB, fled to India right after the murder in March but was arrested later. He is believed to

In recent divorce cases, courts, deviating from the norm, have been denying maintenance to the wife if she is capable of earning or was earning in the past. There are also cases of the wife being asked to pay maintenance to the husband. The husband paying maintenance to the wife is the textbook model for

At a recently held marathon in the city, a group of men caught everyone’s attention with a banner that announced the not-much-spoken plight of harassed husbands. TOI catches up with this troubled lot to find out what their grief is all about Men too can be victims of a bad marriage! Sympathy and the benefit

MANGALORE: The JMFC Court in Mangalore has issued Non-bailable arrest warrant against a woman doctor, hailing from Davangere and her father for submitting a police complaint of alleged dowry charges against her husband and in-laws. According to Advocate PP Hegde, Dr. Ranjeetha Shenoy of Davanagere was married to Dr. Gurukanth Rao, assistant professor of Medicine

Finding that a wife’s telephone conversations at odd hours with her male friend without her husband’s consent and knowledge amounted to cruelty, a Bench of Kerala High Court has granted decree of divorce for an aggrieved NRI husband. The petitioner had moved the division Bench after a Kannur family court rejected his plea for divorce.

http://zeenews.india.com/news/delhi/unemployed-man-cant-be-forced-to-pay-maintenance-to-wife-hc_651157.html New Delhi: An unemployed man cannot beforced to pay maintenance to his estranged wife, the DelhiHigh Court on Friday ruled saying that in an era of equality ofsexes a person cannot be compelled to maintain others ifspouses are on an equal footing. “Under prevelant laws, a husband is supposed to maintainhis unearning spouse out

“A happy marriage is a harbour in the tempest of life, an unhappy marriage is a tempest in the harbour of life“Dowry is one of the biggest social evils facing our country, and no civilized society should tolerate this, and every effort should be made to eradicate this evil, people giving and demanding dowry should

Fighting 24/125 – Maintenance Case filed by wife.  This is an article on how to successfully defend a maintenance case filed by your wife.  These are the judgments, that we have successfully used over the years, alongwith the relevant excerpts, to negative a woman’s claim for maintenance in courts across India. It is always important