@ Author,
I differ to advise given by one of the ld. member of the bar above which is not touching the topic of your query.
1. Remember and recall that we are living in an era of "equality of s*xes". The Constitution provides equal treatment to be given irrespective of s*x, caste and creed.
2. It must be remembered that there is no "legal presumption" that behind every failed marriage there is either dowry demand or domestic violence. Marriages do fail for various other reasons. The difficulty is that real causes of failure of marriage are rarely admitted in Courts. Truth and honesty is becoming a rare commodity, in marriages and in averments made before the Courts.
3. Boldly tell Court to "ask her to beg on streets" after all what good education does to women when she can't even now strat re-working seeing court cases needs servicing and for servicing a court case people do need to work to pay the huge bills of lawyers / court fees / petition writings etc. By making this bold submissions you have nothing more to loose than what you have already lost all these while. Have a man's conviction and courage in telling the truth to Court.
4. Right to Maintenance is neither "absolute duty" of husband and/or nor “absolute rights of a wife” as per Law. The moment you distort the very Law you find yourself in trouble and also encourage ideating status of a wife. Ld. people who differ to this constitutional tombstone writting are the once who are constantly on a watch for minimum 4 cases on average of a wife as client to land unto their chambers. had it not been so they would subscribe to quote and unquote under this para !
Let us test who among the ld. professionals here subscribe to last para now ?