Wife’s Education or Capacity to Earn Alone No Bar to Claiming Maintenance Under Section 125 CrPC: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court has ruled that merely because a wife is educated or capable of earning, she cannot automatically be denied maintenance under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. The Court clarified that while deciding maintenance claims, the important factor is whether the wife presently has sufficient income to maintain herself according to the standard of living she enjoyed in her matrimonial home. The judgment was…
