Have been seeing quite a few new queries about maintenance. So this thread.
There are two types of maintenance during divorce proceedings:
1. Interim alimony [IA or interim maintenance] until the divorce is granted.
2. Peramanent alimony [monthly or lumpsum] after the divorce is granted.
For the IA, the wife would have filed an application that she needs money, now when the IA is ordered, it needs to be paid from the date of the application. For eg: if the alimony application is given on 22-2-2012 and said application is allowed in subsequent months, the alimony payable to the wife is calculated from the date of application.
Such application needs to be given at the completion of one year, which means to say, every year a new application need to be given. The amount fixed as IA would have been fixed based on the situations of that particular year. So dont keep paying money blindly into her account.
After divorce is granted, husband has to pay peramanent alimony, here once again wife has to give application on an yearly basis.
Seniors, please correct me if I am wrong.
