Delhi High Court reduces interim maintenance from ₹30,000 to ₹25,000, holding courts must balance spouses' rights, liabilities, independent income and earning capacity.
Read Full ArticleDelhi High Court holds that a father cannot adjust his daughter's PPF funds against his independent legal obligation to pay maintenance.
The Gujarat High Court upheld the rejection of a wife's maintenance claim under Section 125 CrPC, holding that the statutory bar under Section 125(4) applies where the wife is found to be living in adultery and has voluntarily left the matrimonial home.
Karnataka High Court holds a Muslim father's duty to maintain minor children under Mohammedan law and Section 125 CrPC continues despite the mother's income.
Allahabad High Court denied interim maintenance to a doctor-wife earning ₹31 lakh annually, holding voluntary unemployment cannot burden husband.
Allahabad HC rules widowed daughter-in-law can seek maintenance from father-in-law; husband’s obligation does not end with death.
Orissa HC directs son to vacate ancestral house for 86-year-old father, dismissing both cross writ petitions under MWPSC Act, 2007.
Andhra Pradesh High Court rules maintenance is absolute; unemployment or pending cases cannot excuse a husband from paying wife and child.
Allahabad High Court upholds registered adoption deed, quashes appellate and revisional orders, reiterates statutory presumption under Section 16 HAMA.
Bombay High Court rules that a working wife with sufficient income is not entitled to interim maintenance; child’s maintenance must be paid from the date of application.
Kerala High Court restores maintenance to a wife, ruling that earning capacity or occasional work cannot bar her claim if she lacks stable income.
The Kerala High Court ruled that a Muslim husband cannot avoid maintaining his first wife by citing a second marriage or support provided by their adult son.
Kerala High Court rules that husbands cannot reduce maintenance by citing loans or savings; gross income must be considered under Section 125 CrPC.
Madras HC rejects grandfather’s plea seeking maintenance from a remarried mother, holding the natural guardian father is alive, capable and responsible for the child.
Madras HC asks Centre to explain exclusion of transgender persons from adoption under CARA Guidelines despite Transgender Rights Act, 2019.
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