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Can wife get maintenance even if marriage is treated as invalid? MP High Court says Yes, holding that if marriage rituals were performed and a child was born, the woman’s maintenance claim cannot be rejected merely because the marriage validity is questioned. MADHYA PRADESH: The Madhya Pradesh High Court at Indore, through Justice Gajendra Singh,…
Karnataka High Court delivered an important reminder that maintenance law cannot become financial punishment for husbands when the wife is already earning enough. How long will husbands be treated as default paymasters? BENGALURU: The Karnataka High Court, through Hon’ble Dr. Justice Chillakur Sumalatha, has set aside an interim maintenance order passed against a husband in…
Can a retired Army man avoid proper maintenance by saying he has only pension income? Allahabad High Court said wife and two minor children cannot be left with symbolic maintenance when the husband has a legal duty to support them. PRAYAGRAJ: The Allahabad High Court has allowed a criminal revision filed by a wife and…
A wrong arrest, no identification parade and five years in jail—does our criminal justice system have enough safeguards to protect innocent men from such failures? UTTAR PRADESH: Kanpur Special POCSO Act Court, through Judicial Official Pawan Kumar Rai, acquitted a man after finding that he was wrongly implicated in a rape and POCSO case due…
The Jharkhand High Court upheld the husband’s divorce on the grounds of cruelty and desertion, but still enhanced the wife’s permanent alimony to ₹40 lakh. Can a husband be forced to pay ₹40 lakh alimony even after the wife’s cruelty and desertion are proved? RANCHI: The Jharkhand High Court, through Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad and…
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