Allahabad High Court denied interim maintenance to a doctor-wife earning ₹31 lakh annually, holding voluntary unemployment cannot burden husband.
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Gujarat High Court hears a divorce appeal where the husband alleges mental cruelty, claiming his wife’s obsession with stray dogs made marital life insupportable.
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