Wife employed and earning a salary is NOT entitled to interim maint u/s 24 HMA, even though husband is earning four times MORE than the wife. Child – Daughter gets interim maintenance. Husband does NOT even attend the Supreme court hearing but still wife DENIED interim maintenance ! ****************************** IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

One of the most important rights under divorce and matrimonial laws is the right to receive and claim alimony (maintenance). The term ‘alimony’ has its origin in the Latin word ‘Alimonia’, meaning sustenance. Generally speaking alimony means an allowance or amount which a court orders the husband to pay to the wife for her sustenance.

The Thane District court has set aside an order of a lower court granting maintenance to a housewife and her child. In his order, Additional Sessions Judge A P Raghuvanshi, on August 28, held that the housewife was not entitled to any relief under the provisions of Protection of Women under Domestic Violence Act, 2005.

The following points will be taken into consideration, while granting the maintenance:1. Status of the parties2. reasonable wants of the claimant.3. the independent income and p[roperty of the claimant4. the number of persons, the non-applicant has to maintain5. the amount should aid the applicant to live in a similar life style as he / she

NEW DELHI: Sustaining a high standard of living is no ground for seeking maintenance from an estranged spouse. This is what a Delhi court told a           woman who had sought a maintenance of Rs 1 lakh per month from her husband after the couple separated within a year of their

New Delhi, July 16: The Supreme Court has ruled that it is a husband’s “sacrosanct duty” to support his estranged wife financially and asked family courts to deal firmly with those who adopt delaying tactics to avoid paying maintenance. A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and V. Gopala Gowda passed the judgment yesterday while taking

* Wife fails to prove DV* Magistrate does NOT grant maint to wife, but GRANTS maintenance to children* HC says if wife can’t prove DV , children also NOT entitled to maintenance *****************************disclaimer**********************************This judgment and other similar judgments posted on this blog was / were collected from Judis nic in website and / or other

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