Income of brother of husband in maintainence cases

When husband shows his liabities towards parents and their maintanence , the opp counsel is drawing inference on the husband liabities stating  that husbands brother too is working in a good organisation and he too is liable towards parents maintanence .

hi stanley, thank you for your reply, so does it mean an automatic increase in the maintainence amount? just because the earning of the brother is included? what if the the brother is not looking at the parents. ? and can the opposite counsel also ask for the salary slip of the brother?

maintenance of aged parents is an joint responsibility of both the brothers. It can be said that one of the brother has lot of liabilities hence only you are staying with your parents and looking after them. salary slip of the other brother who is not a party to the dispute is rarely called by the courts. courts don't have much time in scrutinizing the things, they are very very busy. long que to be attended. 

Its just an inference that is been drawn and this point may be raised during arguments to show cause the liabities . 

Options . 

1. Your parents can disown your brother :-) . 

2. Your aged parents can file a maintenance case upon you to show an increase in your  liabities :-)

3. if you are suffering from any dieases like blood pressure , diabities , skin problems you can put forth your medical liabities  :-) 

4. Your brothers salary slip cant be called for as he is not a party to the dispute :-).

etc etc the list can be never ending 

Ultimately what counts is how you play your cards 

I have lot of discomfort the way you are suggesting. There is a huge possibility of a repurcussion by following your suggestion viz.

1)Your parents can disown your brother: that cannot stop your brother liability to provide for parents and ur parents filing a maintenace case upon you can show how cruel you are i.e. your parents have to approach court for maintenance.

the only way is to show the court the exact expenses you have provided for the well being of your parents i.e. their just needs and the normal expenditure that is justified in running the house. I believe courts will give weightage to that.

@abhijeet and stanley...thanks both for your replies......so even if we say that brother has stopped coming to the house and is not looking after the parents, can this arguement be accepted by the court, as the brother is not a party in the case, so he wont be summoned anyways.