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SC orders parents to fund daughters’ education, upholds daughter’s legal right to retain Rs 43 Lakh for education [Read Order]

By Jhanak Sharma      10 January, 2025 05:48 PM      0 Comments
SC orders parents to fund daughters education upholds daughters legal right to retain Rs 43 Lakh for education

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has said parents could be compelled to provide necessary funds within the limit of their financial resources for education of their daughters as they have got an indefeasible, legally enforceable, lawful, and legitimate right to secure educational expenses.

SC Ruling: Parents Must Provide Financial Support for Daughters’ Education

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan allowed a plea for divorce by mutual consent to a couple, living separately for 26 years, and urged the daughter studying in Ireland not to return a sum of Rs 43 lakh paid by her father.

The daughter has declined to take her share out of total Rs 73 lakh agreed to be paid by the husband as one time settlement, even though she was a part of settlement agreement.

Legal Right to Education: SC Upholds Daughter’s Claim for Rs 43 Lakh

"We are of the considered view that Rs 43,00,000 is an amount to which respondent no 2 (daughter) was entitled to in law. She, being the daughter, has an indefeasible, legally enforceable, lawful, and legitimate right to secure educational expenses from her parents. All that we observe is that the daughter has a fundamental right to pursue her education, for which the parents could be compelled to provide necessary funds within the limit of their financial resources," the bench said.

The bench pointed out said amount has been kept by the father without any compelling reasons, which shows that he was financially sound to the extent of providing the financial assistance to his daughter for her academic pursuits.

"The daughter has, thus, got a right to retain that amount. She need not, therefore, return that amount either to the appellant (mother) or to respondent No 1 (father), and may suitably appropriate it as she may deem fit," the bench said.

The appellant woman approached the Supreme Court challenging the Madhya Pradesh High Court's order which increased her monthly maintenance from Rs 5,000 fixed by the family court to Rs 7,000 only.

She claimed her husband's salary was more than Rs 80,000 per month she was entitled to the maintenance, keeping in view the monthly income and standard of living of the husband.

A daughter born from the wedlock lived under the care and custody of the appellant-wife, throughout.

The court referred the matter to mediation where the husband agreed to pay Rs 73 lakh --Rs 30 lakh to wife and Rs 43 lakh to the daughter.

Taking the settlement into record, the court granted divorce using its extraordinary power to do complete justice, as the couple were living separately for the last 26 years.
 

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