Btw, if your friend has never been wrong then she will never be able to prove her allegations and she will never get her divorce, maintenance or alimony. In such case, you need not woory about question 2 and question 3. You need to concentrate on the real case and not money. If you concentrate more on the money and do the mistake of lying about your assets or earning capabilities, then this itself gives an impression to the court that you
1. you are a liar. hence, you lose credibility subsequently in your main case.
2. that think of your wife as an outsider and not your equal. hence you were not willing to share things equally with your wife which is a more than obvious proof that you do not love her anymore.
3. After all this, if you are contesting the divorce suit, it is again more than obvious that you are playing with her life or that you are contesting the divorce only to be in the good books of law to save your skin in 498a or for some other materialistic reason but not really for your wife.
4. This whole thing now gives a picture that money is more important to you than your wife which means there is a possibility that you did harass her for dowry and you probably didnt give her the respect/dignity she deserved as a wife. And mind you, this is sufficient for divorce though not for 498a. Later on, dont crib and curse the indian juciary system.
I am not saying that you should agree to give away everything. Just dont lie in the court regarding your financial condition. In the meanwhile, you can do anything and everything to prove that her financial condition is just as good. Contest the main divorce case strongly and prove all her allegations wrong. Then, there will no divorce, no maintenance and no alimony. That is a better way of handling this issue instead of lying about your financial status.
But, if your friend is afraid that he may have done something that may let the court grant divorce to his wife then he better understand that more often than not he will have to pay both alimony and maintenance besides costing him a fortune for legal expenses and all the stress. So, better sit and talk to his wife and settle the matter through MCD.
just wondering...when your friend's wife has made it clear that she wants a divorce why is your friend agreeing for the same. If she wants to move on, so should he. By forcing her to stay in a marriage she doesnt want to stay in, he is inviting trouble. This marriage is dead. Don't let it haunt and torture.
