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Husband should pay maintenance even if he is jobless: hc

Husband should pay maintenance even if he is jobless: HC

 

Agencies : Madurai, Tue Nov 20 2012, 16:45 hrs

 

A man, though jobless, should pay maintenance to his wife as ordered by court in divorce case, Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has ruled.

 

Justice G Rajasuriya said the husband cannot claim that he was poor, in order to dodge his responsibility of providing monthly maintenance to his wife.

 

"A husband has to take care of his wife somehow or other even if he is jobless," the Judge.

 

He was dismissing a civil revision petition filed by the man challenging the March 3 last order of family court, before which the couple have filed divorce petition, directing him to pay Rs 2,000 as interim maintenance.

 

The Judge also rejected a petition by the woman seeking enhancement of the interim maintenance to Rs 7,000.

 

The man had pleaded that he did not have the source to pay the maintenance ordered by the lower court.

 

His wife said the maintenance ordered by the court was too low.

 

In his order, the Judge said: "A hale and healthy man is expected to work to maintain himself and his dependants. He has to maintain his wife who is incapable of maintaining herself. Somehow or other husband should maintain."

 

Rejecting the prayer for enhancing the maintenance amount of Rs 2,000 granted by the lower court, he said the plea was justifiable if there was clinching evidence to prove that the husband was well off.

 

The petitioner did not produce any such evidence to prove that her husband had enough money, he observed and confirmed the maintenance amount granted by the lower court.

 

Besides, the Judge also directed the man to provide Rs 3,000 to his wife for paying the cost of litigation.

 

The Judge directed the family court to dispose the divorce petition, pending since 2007, in three months.

 

 

 

Religion cannot be thrust upon a child: Bombay HC

 

Agencies : Mumbai, Sat Dec 08 2012, 15:28 hrs

 

Observing that religion cannot be thrust upon a child, the Bombay High Court has rejected a plea to hand over the custody of a three-year-old girl, born to a Christian father and Hindu mother, to her paternal family who wanted to raise her as a Roman Catholic.

 

The matter pertained to a minor girl whose father had fatally stabbed his wife and was behind bars. The father, his sister and the girl's maternal grandfather had filed guardianship petitions seeking custody of the child.

 

The girl's father and aunt submitted that they wanted the child to be raised as a Roman Catholic. They said Catholic rituals must be performed and she must attend a convent school where the ideals of Christianity would be taught.

 

Justice Roshan Dalvi observed, "It would be insulting to Christianity to see the father of the child, who is a Christian, being convicted of murder of his wife. The child would not get the ideals of Christianity from a father who has been imprisoned during her minority having been charged with murder of her mother and cruelty towards her."

 

The judge also dismissed the argument that a man's religion must prevail upon his child, saying it was directly contrary to the freedom of religion under the Constitution and it would also be gender discriminatory.

 

The court decided to give the custody of the child to her maternal grandfather, taking into consideration the fact that the girl, after her mother's death, was living with her maternal grandparents.

 

The judge observed, "There is no greater religion among the great religions. What is to be understood in consideration of religion of the minor is that a minor who has been brought up on the tenets of any of the great religions be not disturbed by thrusting upon the minor the tenets or traditions of another religion which would cause stress and trauma upon the minor during the delicate years of his or her growth.

 

"It would be in the interest of the child if she is kept away from any religious dogma to which she has not been exposed in her infancy so as to leave her childhood care free and stress-free," the judge further remarked.

 

The girl's paternal aunt argued that section 17 of the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890, requires the court to take into consideration the religion of the child and that of the proposed guardian.

 

Her lawyer Uday Warunjkar contended that since the father of the child was a Roman Catholic, the girl must be brought up as a Roman Catholic.

 

However, the judge rejected the argument stating that the concept of religion, as envisaged in section 17 of the Guardians and Wards Act, does not contemplate that in our patriarchal society only the religion of the husband must prevail.

 

The judge opined that this would be contrary to the freedom of religion, which allows each individual to profess and practice the religion of his or her choice. It would be in the interest of the child of she is kept away from any religious dogma.

 

The judge further observed that the child had already adjusted to living with her grandparents and that there there was no reason to disturb the custody of the child at the behest of her father, who has at this stage, rendered himself unfit for seeking her custody.

 

The court noted that the girl's aunt had not sought the custody of the child until December and that her guardianship petition was not self-motivated but filed on instructions of her father from jail.

 

 



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 9 Replies

Sudhir Kumar, Advocate (Advocate)     06 April 2013

a good jusgement. A deterrant for jobless boys to be husband.

sridhar pasumarthy (ADVOCATE)     06 April 2013

Pls provide citations for future reference.

vijay (M)     06 April 2013

hc should provide jobs too in that case

Prashant Ghai (Advocate) (PrashantGhai.com)     06 April 2013

 

Originally posted by : Need Justice


what happens when husband doesn't pay, even after court order? 

is thre any further court order on this like what happens when husband doesnt pay maintenance even after court asked him to pay.
 

 

In short, he'll be put behind bars. As simple as that.

Pankaj   29 September 2016

what happens when husband doesn't pay, even after court order?  is thre any further court order on this like what happens when husband doesnt pay maintenance even after court asked him to pay.

In short, he'll be put behind bars. As simple as that.

If husband having the deendency of oldage mother & daughter responsibility, then whethere court will take care of his oldage mother & daughter when husband will put behind bars.

If wife maintainance is husband responsibility, then whom will be take care of his own blood relation mother & daughter responsibility.

Is India court justice to pay wife but leave orphan to his mother & daughter?  

 

Pankaj   29 September 2016

what happens when husband doesn't pay, even after court order?  is thre any further court order on this like what happens when husband doesnt pay maintenance even after court asked him to pay.

In short, he'll be put behind bars. As simple as that.

If husband having the dependency of oldage mother & daughter responsibility, then whethere court will take care of his oldage mother & daughter when husband will put behind bars.

If wife maintainance is husband responsibility, then whom will be take care of his own blood relation mother & daughter responsibility.

Is India court justice to pay wife but leave orphan to his mother & daughter?  

 

Sachin (N.A)     01 October 2016

Unemployed man can't be forced to pay maintenance to wife : HC

 

 


An unemployed man cannot be forced to pay maintenance to his estranged wife, the Delhi High Court on Friday ruled saying that in an era of equality of s*xes a person cannot be compelled to maintain others if spouses are on an equal footing.

 

"Under prevelant laws, a husband is supposed to maintain his unearning spouse out of the income he earns. No law provides that a husband has to maintain his wife, living seperately from him, irrespective of the fact whether he earns or not," Justice S.N. Dhingra said.

 

The court passed the order while setting aside the order of a family court which had directed the husband, who was unemployed, to pay a maintenance of Rs 5,000 to his wife.

 

The court said the wife, who was equally qualified as her husband and was working in an MNC, cannot ask for maintenance from her husband who lost his job.

 

"Court cannot tell the husband that he should beg, borrow or steal but give maintenance to his wife, more so when the husband and wife are almost qualified and capable of earning and both of them claimed to be gainfully employed before marriage," the court said while granting relief to the husband who was an NRI working in Angola in Africa.

 

"We are living in an era of equality of s*xes. The Constitution provides equal treatment to be given irrespective of s*x, caste and creed. An unemployed husband who is holding an MBA degree cannot be treated differently to an unemployed wife who is also holding an MBA degree.

 

 

 

Sachin (N.A)     01 October 2016

Basically all depends how one represents the case and what are the other merits of case.

Sachin (N.A)     01 October 2016

Originally posted by : Prashant Ghai (Advocate)

Originally posted by : Need Justice

what happens when husband doesn't pay, even after court order? 

is thre any further court order on this like what happens when husband doesnt pay maintenance even after court asked him to pay.
 


 




In short, he'll be put behind bars. As simple as that.

 

It is not that easy to send anyone behind bars. There are number of ways to save a person.

Even SC has said that court should avoid to order of imprisionment in case of non payment of maintenance because lady has came for monetary relief and not for any punishment for her husband , if court order for imprisionment it will discharge him from his liability of maintenance.


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