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Divorce doesn’t end maintenance: Calcutta High Court upholds wife’s monthly claim
September 11, 2026 1:58 pm
While upholding the woman’s monthly maintenance and rejecting the husband’s challenge, the court scrapped the amount awarded for their daughter’s upkeep.
‘Wife can’t be a beggar’: Himachal Pradesh High Court upholds divorcee’s maintenance
September 01, 2026 5:53 pm
Divorced wife maintenance can continue till remarriage, the Himachal Pradesh High Court said while upholding a maintenance order.
Man must pay maintenance to stepson he accepted as family: Uttarakhand High Court
August 25, 2026 3:06 pm
A woman challenged the family court’s order directing her estranged husband to pay maintenance to her and their daughter, but denying maintenance to her son, who was born from her previous marriage.
‘Maintenance no charity’: Allahabad High Court upholds Rs 20,000 a month to wife
August 11, 2026 1:16 pm
The high court was hearing a criminal revision challenging the March 30, 2024 family court order awarding the wife Rs 20,000 per month as maintenance.
Uttarakhand High Court says loans ‘no excuse’, hikes maintenance for SBI officer’s wife
August 07, 2026 11:50 am
The woman sought enhancement of the Rs 10,000 monthly maintenance granted by the family court in 2021, claiming she had no independent source of livelihood.
Wife's earning capacity not ‘actual’ income, says Delhi High Court in maintenance case
August 01, 2026 9:26 am
The court noted that the wife, a B Tech graduate in Telecommunications, had sought Rs 3.38 lakh per month as maintenance from her estranged husband who was working in Air India but had been terminated now.
Not paying maintenance to wife, children economic abuse, rules Kerala High Court
July 30, 2026 1:42 pm
The court upheld the Rs 10,000 monthly support to each for the woman and her child along with Rs 2 lakh compensation, noting that domestic ill-treatment doesn't require independent proof.
Bombay High Court cuts wife’s maintenance to Rs 25,000, cites 'premium' lifestyle burden
July 28, 2026 11:57 am
The husband filed the plea challenging a family court’s January 2025 order directing him to pay interim maintenance of Rs 50,000 per month to his estranged wife and son from October 30, 2021.
Wife with higher income, no liabilities can’t claim maintenance: Karnataka High Court
June 30, 2026 12:49 pm
Holding that courts may award maintenance only when it is shown that the wife has no sources to maintain herself, the Karnataka High Court set aside an order granting Rs 20,000 monthly maintenance.
Court rejects ex-Army man's ‘wife threw me out’ plea, orders him to pay maintenance
June 15, 2026 12:25 pm
The Madras High Court has refused to interfere with a maintenance order, noting that unpaid arrears had climbed to Rs 8.24 lakh despite repeated court directions.
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