Financially Independent Wife Not Entitled to Maintenance; Child’s Monthly Support to Continue: Bombay High Court
The Aurangabad Bench of the Bombay High Court has ruled that a financially independent wife, who is employed as a government doctor, is not entitled to claim monthly maintenance from her husband under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005. At the same time, the Court made it clear that the legal and moral responsibility of the father to maintain the minor child continues without any dilution. Court…
