Doc asked to pay ₹40k maintenance to estranged wife
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:08.07.2019
Upholding an order by a family court, the Madras high court directed a dentist from Chennai currently working at a software company in Bengaluru to pay ₹40,000 maintenance to his estranged wife, a hearing-impaired woman, and their teenage daughter.
The man’s appeal against the family court’s order was dismissed by the high court which held that he failed to submit his correct income from the software company, where he is supposed to be working while the fact remains that he has a separate clinic in Chennai and engages the services of junior dentists to run the clinic.
The couple were married in 2005 and after they got separated, the wife filed a petition seeking maintenance. The family court, in February 2019, directed the man to pay the interim maintenance.
In the appeal, counsel for the husband submitted that his client was not successful as a dentist and hence he was working in a software company in Bengaluru. “Therefore, the sum of ₹40,000 is far and excessive,” counsel submitted.
Refuting the contentions, counsel for the wife submitted that the woman is a Class X drop out and suffers from hearing impairment.
It was also pointed out that there are no dependents on the man as his father is a pensioner and that the family owns three houses.
The high court said, “It is a unique and peculiar case to notice the husband being a dentist has transformed as a software professional.”
On submission that he has no income through the dental profession, the family court pointed out from that he is capable of paying salaries to junior dentists and rent for the clinic and he wouldn’t have done so but for his income from it.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:08.07.2019
Upholding an order by a family court, the Madras high court directed a dentist from Chennai currently working at a software company in Bengaluru to pay ₹40,000 maintenance to his estranged wife, a hearing-impaired woman, and their teenage daughter.
The man’s appeal against the family court’s order was dismissed by the high court which held that he failed to submit his correct income from the software company, where he is supposed to be working while the fact remains that he has a separate clinic in Chennai and engages the services of junior dentists to run the clinic.
The couple were married in 2005 and after they got separated, the wife filed a petition seeking maintenance. The family court, in February 2019, directed the man to pay the interim maintenance.
In the appeal, counsel for the husband submitted that his client was not successful as a dentist and hence he was working in a software company in Bengaluru. “Therefore, the sum of ₹40,000 is far and excessive,” counsel submitted.
Refuting the contentions, counsel for the wife submitted that the woman is a Class X drop out and suffers from hearing impairment.
It was also pointed out that there are no dependents on the man as his father is a pensioner and that the family owns three houses.
The high court said, “It is a unique and peculiar case to notice the husband being a dentist has transformed as a software professional.”
On submission that he has no income through the dental profession, the family court pointed out from that he is capable of paying salaries to junior dentists and rent for the clinic and he wouldn’t have done so but for his income from it.
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