maintenance
Priyanka mehta
(Querist) 05 October 2009
This query is : Resolved
husband has filed petition for divorce under cruelty and desertion. now wife has filed application for maintenance. wife is earning Rs.5000 per month and there is no issue out of marriage and no other liabilities also. and wife never made any attempts for reconciliation and also carrries middle class life style.
can u plz help me with some citations or judgments denying maintenance application of earning wife.
R.R. KRISHNAA
(Expert) 05 October 2009
The following judgments hold to deny maintenance to earning wife:-
Mamta Jaiswal Vs. Rajesh Jaiswal II (2000) DMC 170
Manokaran @ Ramamoorthy Vs. M. Devaki AIR 2003 Mad 212
Kumaresan Vs. Aswathi (2002) 2 MLJ 760