Overview
- Expanding the week’s run of rulings, the Himachal Pradesh High Court upheld residence and maintenance for a wife under the Domestic Violence Act, saying a husband living with another woman remains duty‑bound to provide for her.
- The Delhi High Court affirmed maintenance for a woman from her second marriage despite no formal divorce from her first, stressing a liberal reading of “wife” under Section 125 to prevent destitution.
- The Gujarat High Court ruled that loan EMIs do not cut a father’s duty to support his children and enhanced payments for triplets, directing proportional sharing of his income among dependents.
- The Karnataka High Court held that a long delay in seeking support does not waive a woman’s statutory right to maintenance and ordered a BHEL employee to pay his wife Rs 15,000 per month.
- Strengthening enforcement, the Punjab & Haryana High Court upheld Rs 30,000 interim maintenance for an elderly mother and ordered salary deductions and auto‑debit to ensure timely payment.