Is Rs.1,500 per month enough as maintenance for three children? No, said the Delhi High Court, which has pulled up a man for giving this paltry amount to his divorced wife for bringing up their three children. He has now been ordered to cough up a monthly maintenance of Rs.7,500 – or Rs.2,500 for each [ Read More ]
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Maid lived as wife, should get maintenance: high courtA 65-year-old man will have to pay maintenance of Rs.3,000 per month to his domestic help as she was living with him like a wife, the Delhi High Court has ruled, upholding the order of a family court. The 30-year-old woman used to live with the petitioner with her three minor children. She stayed with [ Read More ] Wealthy wife ordered to pay maintenance to husbandInvoking the principle of gender equality, the Delhi High Court Thursday upheld a lower court order asking a woman, who runs a business with an annual turnover of about Rs.1 crore, to pay monthly maintenance of Rs.20,000 to her estranged, unemployed husband. Justice G.S. Sistani upheld the trial court order of 2009 that awarded maintenance [ Read More ] Man’s income basis for maintenance to be paid: CourtWhat should be the basis of maintenance that a man should pay to his estranged spouse in a case of domestic violence? The Delhi High Court Friday ruled that the man’s income should be the parameter and not his family’s property. Justice Shiv Narayan Dhingra made the observation while setting aside a family court order [ Read More ] ‘Domestic violence law gives no right to seek maintenance’The Delhi High Court Tuesday held that the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 does not give a woman any additional right to claim maintenance from husband. Justice Shiv Narayan Dhingra, while dismissing the petition of Rachna Kathuria, said the act only puts on fast track the enforcement of existing right of maintenance [ Read More ] |
