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Showing posts with label maintenance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label maintenance. Show all posts
Tuesday, 11 August 2026

Delhi HC: Father cannot use money in daughter's PPF account to pay maintenance

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While it is shown that the account had been closed and money taken out by the Appellant / Defendant in accordance with PPF Act and closure ...
Sunday, 26 July 2026

Supreme Court direct that in a subsequent maintenance proceeding, the applicant shall disclose the previous maintenance proceeding, and the orders passed therein

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  Directions on overlapping jurisdictions It is well settled that a wife can make a claim for maintenance under different statutes. For inst...
Sunday, 5 July 2026

Karnataka HC: Financially Independent Wife Earning More Than Husband Can't Claim Maintenance Merely Because She Is A Woman

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 Only because a woman more particularly a wife files a petition invoking the provisions of Domestic Violence Act or the provisions of Hindu ...
Friday, 26 June 2026

Supreme Court: The court should grant permanent alimony enhancement at the rate of 5% every two years due to inflation

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The Appellant-wife, who has remained unmarried and is living independently, is entitled to a level of maintenance that is reflective of the ...
Saturday, 25 April 2026

Questions and answers on law {Part 92}

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  Q 1:- What are Kinds of estoppel? Ans:- “Broadly, estoppel is of three classical kinds: estoppel by record, estoppel by deed, and estoppel...
Thursday, 23 April 2026

Supreme Court: Hindu Daughter-in-Law Who Becomes Widow After Father-in-Law's Death Entitled To Maintenance From His Estate :

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Section 19 of the Act provides for the maintenance of "widowed daughter-in-law" of the deceased Hindu. It simply contemplates that...
Monday, 24 November 2025

THE SILENT APPEAL: Why a Judge Cannot Enhance Maintenance When the Wife Doesn’t Fight Back

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  A Domestic Violence Law Deep Dive for Judicial Officers and Legal Practitioners Introduction: The Paradox of Appellate Justice Imagi...
Saturday, 15 November 2025

Video on Madras High Court judgment protecting Child Welfare and Preventing Misuse of Law

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  This video analyzes the landmark judgment delivered by the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on November 13, 2025, in CRL RC(MD) No. ...
Saturday, 11 October 2025

Bombay HC: Husband can not rely on customary divorce if he has not proved any custom to take such customary divorce.

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 The Courts below have recorded the findings that there was a marriage between the applicant and non-applicant in the year 1961. The content...

Bombay HC: husband is deemed to have refused and neglected to maintain wife if husband is residing with second wife or another woman

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 Even assuming for a moment that there was a divorce between the parties, it would be relevant at this juncture to refer to the reported jud...

Gujarat HC: What is duty of the court when it comes to its knowledge that future maintenance right was relinquished on payment of illusory amount of maintenance?

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 The principle underlying the lump sum payment as laid down by the Supreme Court in Bai Tahira's case (supra) can be equally applied to ...
Monday, 8 September 2025

Madras HC: How to decide interim maintenance enhancement application filed by wife even though she is having sufficient income?

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Further, the fact that the respondent has received substantial monies for the last three financial years is also not in dispute. The object ...
Sunday, 24 August 2025

Kerala HC: Wife can claim maintenance after divorce despite prior compromise agreement if she is unable to maintain herself

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Apparently, Ext.B2 was executed in the year 2004, and the claim for maintenance was raised only in the year 2012. Thus, without much discuss...
Saturday, 23 August 2025

Supreme Court: The court may award maintenance to wife up to 25% of husband's income and to child 15% of husband's income

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 A sum of Rs. 250/- per month for the maintenance of the wife of a person occupying the position of the appellant cannot be said to err on t...
Sunday, 13 April 2025

Bombay HC: In proceeding for maintenance U/S 18 of Hindu Adoption and maintenance Act, jurisdiction of court is ascertained as per provisions of S 20 of CPC

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 In the present case, the suit for maintenance has been filed under Section 18 of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956. Unlike the ...
Tuesday, 25 March 2025

Supreme Court: Under which circumstances Wife, Separated From 1st Husband, Can Claim Maintenance U/S 125 of CRPC From 2nd Husband Though 1st Marriage is Not Legally Dissolved?

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The present case does not concern a live-in relationship. The Family Court made a factual finding that Appellant No. 1 married the Responden...
Saturday, 8 February 2025

Bombay HC: Whether the court can grant maintenance U/S 125 of CRPC to wife after her divorce if she fails to incorporate this fact by amending her application?

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Since there was no dispute about divorce and it was a ground available for maintenance under Section 125 Explanation (b), the learned Magist...
Sunday, 26 January 2025

Supreme Court: Bail In matrimonial offences Can't Be Conditional On Payment Of Maintenance

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  With the above, the counsel argues that the High Court  while considering bail, should not have imposed a precondition on the appellant fo...
Saturday, 25 January 2025

Kerala HC: Muslim Wife Residing Separately From Husband On His Contracting Second Marriage Can Claim Maintenance Under CrPC /BNSS

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  The Muslim Personal Law, though, permits the husband  to contract a second marriage during the subsistence of the first  marriage in excep...
Sunday, 9 June 2024

Bombay HC: The court must award interest on maintenance amount

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  The trial Courts are not awarding interest on maintenance amount. There is no any legal ban to award interest on that amount of maintenanc...