Amount of maintenance

When she is working she will not be entittle for the maintenance.  If she resigns her job only for maintenance , you can take the contention that she resigned only to get the maintenance.

Collect the all evidance about her Job Like Company Name , Her Bio Data, Work Experience and Bank Statement. She is educated and she able to earn money. Otherwise agreed with Adv Rajeev. ( rajoo )

Same Situation with me....

Yours/her assets/liabilities will also be considered for deciding maintenance petition apart from the number of years in marriage and the kids u have

if you will prove in the court that she is working and getting handsome salary then she will not entitle for any maintenance amount from you and if she had left her job then you can proves that she had left the job only for getting maintenance amount from you .

Do courts look at providing a minimum maintenance amount these days? For a well educated couple (both professionals).. where the husband and wife both are earning but the husband has been earning much more (say 1 lakh against 12000 earned by wife) because wife just started job while husband in job for several years... would the court consider giving a minimum amount (say atleast 15K)?

Also what if whatever salary wife was earning she also left the job just for the sake of maintenance and now saying in court that due to mental harassment she is unable to work. This after 9 months of separation?

the guidelines before the court is the spouse should be able to maintain her standard of living post seperation, so court can consider giving some amount to your wife.

if she leaves her job, then though court will view it negatively, but they still have to give some maintenance amount to her.  with this logic, you can also resign from your job where court would be tempted to allot maintenance based on your assets.