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Tarun B (Service)     29 December 2015

Section 125 crpc - maintenance

My wife and her parents live in the state of Haryana, but her uncle is an advocate in Himachal Pradesh. With help of her uncle she filed a case of CRPC 125 for maintance.

Facts to our Seperation.

My wife was having an extra marital affair - she gave me her confession and apology in her own hand written letter. (she signed and put her thumb imprsssion aswell).

She is well educated was working before our marriage, she was also working the time we were living together. And now after seperation also, she is working in the state / city  of Haryana, where she and her parents are actually living. (I have all her emplyement details, salary slips from the begining and also collected the salary and employement details of her current work place).

From our wedlock we have two  minor daughters; both of my daughters are staying with me and am taking care of them

Is she still eligible for maintainance ?

Can she file a case under section 125 from a different state, just because her relative is an advocate ?

Please advise, as how and what should I do ..!!

 

 



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 13 Replies

Laxmi Kant Joshi (Advocate )     29 December 2015

If she is well educated and a working woman then file your ws in the court and exhibit all the relevant proofs and make request to the court to deny her maintenance, she is not entitle for maintenance.

SAINATH DEVALLA (LEGAL CONSULTANT)     29 December 2015

If she is well qualified and her income is sufficient enough to maintain herself decently,she is not eligible for maintenance.( accordding to the standard of living at her marital home).If her income is less than 1/3rd the income of her husband,then only she is eligible for maintenance to that extent.She can file any case at the place where she is residing,moreover it is her paternal place.

i am surprised how she left small daughters without claiming their custody.

her relative being an advocate does not have any relevance for filing a case.The only thing is he may act as an advisor.

MADDI SRINIVAS REDDY   29 December 2015

If her getting salory is not sufficient to maintain herself then she is entitle for file maintenance  

case U/sec 125 of Cr.P.C..

Then you have to proof in courts that she is sufficient to maintain herself.

dgpprasad (student cum lawer assistant)     29 December 2015

A daughter in law (deased son wife) filed case against her father in law for maintenance if 125 of cr.p.c applied (andhra pradesh)

 

SAINATH DEVALLA (LEGAL CONSULTANT)     29 December 2015

Dear Prasad,

U have to post UR query in a new thread,yet I am replying with a citation.

 A widow is entitled to claim maintenance from her father-in-law if the latter is in possession of her deceased husband's self-acquired property, a family court here has ruled.
Judge A G Farswani pronounced a judgment to this effect recently while allowing the petition filed by a woman, who lost her husband in January 2009, over two years after their marriage as per the Hindu vedic rites at Deolali in Nashik in November 2006, and was forced out of her matrimonial home by her in-laws.

In a 28-page judgment, the court directed the father-in-law to pay her a maintenance of Rs 40,000 per month and a lump sum maintenance of Rs 7 lakh for the period between September 2009, when the petition was filed, till the date of the order. The court also directed the father-in-law to pay Rs 10,000 cost to the petitioner. The lump sum amount and the cost are to be paid within a fortnight from the date of order, the court ruled.

The woman (name withheld) and her husband were living in a joint family along with her father-in-law and two sisters-in-law at Katraj. A fortnight after her husband's death, she had to leave for Mumbai to see her ailing mother. However, when she returned on February 3, 2009, her in-laws refused to let her enter the house. Later, she filed a case against the in-laws, seeking compensation, 'streedhan' and other reliefs under the Domestic Violence (DV) Act and the matter is pending in a magisterial court.

In September 2009, she moved a petition before the family court seeking residence and maintenance under the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act from her father-in-law.

She claimed that her husband, who owned an ice-cream factory at Katraj, was earning Rs 40,000 per month and also had substantial investments in shares, insurance policies, public provident fund and mutual fund accounts. He also owned a share in the proceeds of the matrimonial family's ancestral house which was sold in 2007.

She alleged that she was driven out of the matrimonial house and was deprived of her legal rights and that her father-in-law had withdrawn monies from the bank accounts she jointly held with her husband. She claimed Rs 1 lakh monthly maintenance and right to live in the matrimonial house.

On his part, the father-in-law had claimed that he was entitled to keep all the properties by virtue of a will left on November 3, 2008 by his deceased son. He also claimed that he had extended a substantial loan to his son which the daughter-in-law was liable to repay. The daughter-in-law has challenged the probate of will (court process by which a will is proved valid or invalid) and the same is pending final disposal.
The family court observed that it was not going into the question of validity of the will but was considering whether the respondent (father-in-law) had in his custody the estate of the deceased person.
It noted that the respondent himself had admitted that the estate of his son - assessed at over Rs 1.5 crore as per the value of 2009 - was in his custody. This included movable and immovable properties of the deceased husband, some of which was reinvested by the father-in-law.
The court observed, "It is a well known principle under the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act that a testator (person who leaves a will) can only bequeath his self-acquired properties and not the coparcenary (inherited) properties. The petitioner being the widowed daughter-in-law having no sufficient earnings of her own or other property, is entitled to be maintained as a dependent from the estate of her deceased husband which was in custody and possession of the father-in-law. As such, she is entitled to claim maintenance."
The court set aside an earlier grant of interim maintenance of Rs 5,000 to the petitioner under the DV Act and ruled that the Rs 40,000 monthly maintenance is all inclusive.

prabhakar advocate (advocate)     30 December 2015

Widow daughter-in-law is entitled to maintenance under Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act.

MADDI SRINIVAS REDDY   31 December 2015

Widow daugher-in- law is eligible to file maintenance against her in- laws if she is not get marriage U/Sec 125 of Cr.P. C.

MADDI SRINIVAS REDDY   31 December 2015

Widow daugher-in- law is eligible to file maintenance against her in- laws if she is not get marriage U/Sec 125 of Cr.P. C.

MADDI SRINIVAS REDDY   31 December 2015

Widow daugher-in- law is eligible to file maintenance against her in- laws if she is not get marriage U/Sec 125 of Cr.P. C.

MADDI SRINIVAS REDDY   31 December 2015

Widow daugher-in- law is eligible to file maintenance against her in- laws if she is not get marriage U/Sec 125 of Cr.P. C.

MADDI SRINIVAS REDDY   31 December 2015

Widow daugher-in- law is eligible to file maintenance against her in- laws if she is not get marriage U/Sec 125 of Cr.P. C.

MADDI SRINIVAS REDDY   31 December 2015

Widow daugher-in- law is eligible to file maintenance against her in- laws if she is not get marriage U/Sec 125 of Cr.P. C.

MADDI SRINIVAS REDDY   31 December 2015

Widow daugher-in- law is eligible to file maintenance against her in- laws if she is not get marriage U/Sec 125 of Cr.P. C.

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