PLURALITY OF MAINTENANCE LAWS IN INDIA: ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES
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Legally Wedded Wives, Dependency, Maintenance, Obligation to Pay, Permanent Alimony, Financial Support, Maintenance Laws, Hindu Laws, Muslim LawsAbstract
Maintaining good relations with the family members is the first priority of every member in the family. It is the primary duty of parents to fulfil all the necessary wants of the children, of husbands to take care of his legally wedded wives, of children to be support of their aged dependent parents. This research paper deals with all such kind of laws which we have in our constitution i.e. maintenance laws in India. Maintenance refers to the payments, which is given to the aggrieved party, under certain circumstances as an obligation to pay for example, alimony is an amount that a husband’s or wife’s pays to spouse after separation or divorce to support them financially. The most important aspect of maintenance is that the party which relies on maintenance has no independent source of income to support themselves. Maintenance is provided to legally wedded wives after separation, to children, to dependent parents and to relatives sometimes. In this research, the researcher is going to explain the plurality of the maintenance laws, the issues regarding it, and the perspective from different view of consideration, and have also provided some of the supreme court judgements on maintenance to wives. In India, maintenance laws are in variety, for Hindus, Muslims, Parsi, etc. such as Hindu law, Muslim law, Parsi law, Christian law, however the researcher has confiscated in the vision of Hindus from the following religion. Note that this isn’t about the religion, this is all about the maintenance and the provisions regarding it.
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