Charge can be created on joint family property in which Husband has interest for recovery of maintenance
It is also well settled that when a coparceners wife has a right of maintenance it can be made the subject matter of a charge on the property of the coparcenary by a decree of the Court. Mr. Naik, submitted that the right of maintenance can be enforced by the wife only in respect of the share of the husband. But the share of the husband cannot be ascertained unless there is a partition under Hindu Law. The essence of a coparcenary is unity of ownership in the whole body of coparceners.
16. According to the true notion of an undivided family governed by the Mitakashara Law while it remains undivided it cannot be predicted by the joint and undivided member of the family that he and/or any particular member has a definite share, 1/3rd or 1/4th. The right of each coparcener until a partition takes place, consists in the common possession and common enjoyment of the coparcenary property. There is a community of interest and unity of possession between all the members of t
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