{"id":36030,"date":"2014-12-01T08:53:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T03:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=36030"},"modified":"2014-12-01T08:53:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T03:23:41","slug":"maintenance-legal-right-married-woman-delhi-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/maintenance-legal-right-married-woman-delhi-court","title":{"rendered":"Maintenance legal right of a married woman: Delhi court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Delhi court has refused to set aside the interim maintenance awarded to a woman and her child from her estranged husband in a domestic violence case, saying it is the &#8220;legal right of a <a href=\"https:\/\/zeenews.india.com\/tags\/married-woman.html\">married woman<\/a> to claim maintenance from her husband&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Special judge Sanjay Sharma dismissed the man&#8217;s appeal against the order of the trial court which had asked him to pay Rs 8,000 per month to his wife and two-year-old child.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is the legal right of a married woman to claim maintenance from her husband. 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The magisterial court has rightly done some guess work in reaching a prima facie opinion that his monthly income would be around Rs 16,000-Rs 18,000 per month,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>The court dismissed his appeal with a cost of Rs 5,000 and asked the magisterial court to ensure that the cost of appeal is realised and is paid to his wife.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Delhi court has refused to set aside the interim maintenance awarded to a woman and her child from her estranged husband in a domestic violence case, saying it is the &#8220;legal right of a married woman to claim maintenance from her husband&#8221;. 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