Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13 -- Divorce petition by husband on account of desertion by wife and mental cruelty - Wife in service before marriage at a different place - Fact of service and place of posting was known to husband before marriage - Wife, visiting husband when she got leave - Wife financially supported her old mother and handicapped brother - Case of..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1A)(i) -- Divorce petition by husband on ground of desertion and cruelty - However, decree for judicial separation passed - Husband thereafter seeking dissolution of marriage on the ground that there was no cohabitation after decree for judicial separation was passed - Wife alleging that the parties came together on certain occasions..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13 -- Cruelty - Desertion - Conduct of husband - He never kept his wife with him, persuaded her to live with his parents, filed petition u/s 9 of the Act, ill-treated and maltreated her and on that count wife declined to reside with him - Husband never paid any maintenance to her till the Court ordered, never made any attempt to..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ib) -- Desertion - Must be an intention on the part of the deserting spouse to bring cohabitation permanently to end without reasonable cause and without the consent of the other spouse - If in compliance of agreement the respondent is living separately that is not without his consent or against his Will - Desertion not proved...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(ia)(ib) -- Cruelty and desertion - Divorce petition by husband - Sex cruelty - If parties are nagging, accusing and quarrelling with each other, living under the same roof will not bring harmony, will not make their life congenial - In that atmosphere sex has no meaning...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ib) -- Desertion - Wife beaten and turned out of house repeatedly for want of money from her parents - No evidence in rebuttal by husband - Held, husband utterly failed to prove the ground of cruelty on account of desertion...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia)(ib) -- Desertion - Animus deserendi - Wife beaten and turned out of house repeatedly - Wife still ready to join - Animus deserendi not proved - Rather husband is guilty of constructive desertion - Marriage not irretrievably broken - Decree of divorce cannot be granted only because it remained on the lurch for a long time at the..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13 -- Desertion - Husband creating circumstances under which wife had to leave matrimonial home in the night - Husband not making any effort to bring her back - Husband calling wife ugly and levelling defamatory allegations - Husband is guilty of offence of cruelty - It is husband who has deserted the wife - Divorce petition by husband..........
Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, Section 18 -- Maintenance - Desertion - Husband a Bank Manager - Not keeping wife at the place of his posting - Forcing the wife to live in a village a life of isolation and neglect - Amounts to desertion - Husband earning Rs.4, 000/- per month - Maintenance of Rs.1, 000/- per month allowed...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance - Wife getting casual employment as a temporary worker long after desertion by husband - Cannot be said that wife is able to maintain herself - Husband is liable to pay maintenance...........