Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance to wife and child - Child not impleaded as party to proceedings - However, proof of neglect by husband towards his wife and minor child can be sufficiently proved by wife qua the child also - Right of minor child to claim maintenance remain subsumed within mother's petition for maintenance, even if child has not..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance to wife - Husband is 92 years of age and is suffering from various ailments - Irrespective of age and ailments from which husband may be suffering, since he is recipient of regular monthly income from various sources, he cannot be permitted to deny/neglect maintenance to wife who is not intentionally living..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance to minor child - Object of S.125 Cr.P.C. is not to punish a parent for his past neglect, but to prevent vagrancy by compelling those who are having ability to support those dependents who are themselves unable to do so and those who have a moral claim to be supported...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 24 -- Object of maintenance proceedings - Not to punish person for his past neglect but to prevent vagrancy by compelling those who can do so to support those who are unable to support themselves and who have moral claim to support...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance to parents - Parents having three children - Allowing any option for parents to choose any of them would be unjust and onerous only on one of children particularly when others are also earning and that too handsomely - Since other children are having sufficient means to maintain their parents, they should also have..........
Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizen Act, 2007, Section 2(h), 2(k) -- Neglect and ill treatment of mother - Mother allowed to live in the house alongwith her daughter (Relationship of daughter estranged with her husband) - Plea that there is no provision in the Act for reinstatement of daughter - Mother instead of engaging an attendant, desired to be taken..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125(1) -- Maintenance - Proof of neglect or refusal is a condition precedent to grant maintenance - Living condition of wife and child on an appraisal of evidence determines the entitlement of maintenance allowance...........
Maintenance and welfare of Parent and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, Section 23, 4, 2(b), (d), (f), (h) -- Scope - Maintenance of parents and/or senior citizen - The Act aims at providing better medical facilities (including attendance and treatment), protection of their life and property, to protect them from emotional neglect and lack of physical and financial support and to..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance - Order of restitution of conjugal rights in favour of husband - Held, it alone is not sufficient for him to resist the claim of maintenance by wife, which is a statutory right enforcible where it is shown that there was neglect on his part to maintain her and her inability due to lack of means for sustenance in..........
Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, Section 18(2)(a) -- Maintenance - Claim on the ground of desertion - Wife has to establish a case of desertion by husband without reasonable cause, without her consent or against her wish or wilful neglect...........
