• The Jharkhand High Court increased a divorced woman's permanent alimony from ₹10 lakh to ₹40 lakh, citing inflation, rising medical expenses, and her future financial security. • The couple…
The Bombay High Court recently held that a divorced wife cannot seek enhancement of the maintenance amount that was ordered before her husband's death. However, the ex-wife can continue to…
The Bombay high court has held that a wife who leaves her matrimonial home due to a hostile or humiliating environment can still seek maintenance under Section 125 CrPC, even…
A bench of Justices Manmohan and Manoj Misra held that not every relationship culminates in marriage and an adverse inference that one party has cheated the other cannot be drawn merely because a relationship…