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Clarification about emails

To give background,my wife and I married in 2007 in India and lived abroad.By early 2008 we had agreed to separate due to misunderstandings.My wife requested me to spend money on education and passing various competitive exams abroad to get her settled.She wanted me not to inform her family and she will give divorce when she settled.I contnued to spend money(about 10 lakhs) till August 2009 when she failed twice.At this point,I asked her to inform her family as the stress was getting too much(pretending the marriage was okay t her family).She returned to India and then demanded huge alimony from me.Lower court asked me to pay 15000 and I have paid 2 lakhs arrears but they have appealed in High Court fr more alimony.Unfortunatey I have also lost my job due to recession and staying with my parents for the last year.

My question:

1)I have emails from her asking me to spend money on her education and that she will return the money as soon as possible and also the bills on what I have spent for her.Is it any use to either reduce the maintenance or in the divorce case(I have filed on the basis of cruelty in 2011).Many thanks

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Rama chary Rachakonda (Secunderabad/Telangana state Highcourt practice watsapp no.9989324294 ) 08 March 2013

The following are the conditions depending on which alimony is awarded by the court.

Alimony is generally not granted to the seeking spouse if he or she is already receiving support during the time of divorce. Although the rewarding of alimony can be revised in such events based on the arguments for claiming the support.
In case of a contested divorce, often spouses fail to come to any understanding regarding alimony. In such situations, the court takes up the task of making a decision on the amount of alimony to be paid.
Only under certain compelling situations the court steps out to change the already framed alimony. Some times the court might even hand over the burden of paying for the maintenance to a public body.