Marriage dispute

Querist : Anonymous (Querist) 23 July 2024 This query is : Resolved
Hello,

I am a working professional having around 10 years of work experience. I earn around 2.06 lakh rupees per month. I am a Post Graduate. I got married in 2019 November. Before marriage my wife & I decided that since I was working in Mumbai, I would be settling in Mumbai. My parents used to Live in Aurangabad (MH). My mother before my marriage was a Cancer Patient (SInce June 2017) and my Father was a COngestive Heart Failure Patient (since March 2018). My wife is a Chartered Accountant. Before marriage she was a working as a partner in a CA firm in a Tier 2 City in Gujrat and earning around 45000 rupees. Currently we are separated and I am taking Care of my Father. My mother and her mother have expired. If I earn as I mentioned above and she earns 80K per month and she is willingly living in Mumbai even after my strong opposition to that movement by her own. She is asking for maintenance. If she approaches court (she has already given me a lawyer notice and asked for 1 crore rupees mental harassment compensation), how much will the maintenance be in this case? We don't have kids. I support my father with 27000 INR per month. I pay my maid around 5000 per month. All household expense are around 15000 and Savings are around 30000 per month. I have a car loan of 44000 per month as well. I am not aware of the breakdown of her expenses. I only know that she is earning around 80K per month.

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kavksatyanarayana (Expert) 23 July 2024
You can reply to her legal notice as your salary is less than her salary and you have to look after your father who is also an earning member more than you and reply accordingly by engaging an advocate.

Querist : Anonymous (Querist) 23 July 2024
But my question is still open, if it leads to a legal thing, how much maintenance might be needed for her?

Querist : Anonymous (Querist) 23 July 2024
Also, as I mentioned I earn 2 lakhs approx and she earns 80 thousand approx. I live in Aurangabad and she lives in Mumbai. She is by her willingness living there. I never asked her or forced her.

T. Kalaiselvan, Advocate (Expert) 24 July 2024
You can refuse to pay her maintenance for the reason that she is employed and earning a substantial income which is sufficient to sustain her expenses especially when there are no children to maintain.
You have to prove her salary income and other issues in order to repudiate her claim for maintenance.

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