The man had gone to the local court two years later to seek permanent child support.
Bombay:
The Bombay High Court has upheld orders issued by a local court in Nanded, Maharashtra, ordering a teacher to pay child support to her “needy” ex-husband.
In an order dated February 26 this year, Judge Bharati Dangre of the Aurangabad Bank of the High Court upheld orders made by the District Court in 2017 and 2019.
The civil court had ordered the woman to pay her ex-husband an interim monthly alimony of Rs 3,000 and asked the headmaster of her school to deduct Rs 5,000 from her salary each month and deposit it with the court as unpaid alimony since August 2017 .
The woman challenged the lower court’s orders, arguing that she divorced her husband in 2015.
The man had gone to the local court two years later to seek permanent child support.
The woman’s attorney argued that after a marriage ended, neither party was entitled to alimony or alimony.
However, the man’s attorney argued that Section 25 of the Hindu Marriage Law did not provide for a limitation on alimony or alimony claim in this way.
The man claimed he had no source of income and was suffering from health problems that left him unable to work.
The woman completed her education and became a teacher after marrying, he said.
“In order to encourage the wife (applicant) to graduate, he managed the household and put aside his own ambition,” he said in his pleading.
Judge Dangre said that Sections 24 and 25 of the Hindu Marriage Law give the destitute spouse the right to seek maintenance and upheld the lower court’s order.
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