MAINTENANCE DISPUTE
₹2,000 old-age pension for estranged wife not enough: HC
Ajay.Sura@timesgroup.com
Chandigarh:24.03.2021
The Punjab and Haryana high court while deciding a dispute between an estranged elderly couple — the man is 75 years old and his wife is 67 years old — over maintenance allowance made it clear that an old-age pension of ₹2,000 is inadequate.
Upholding that ₹9,000 as monthly maintenance allowance allowed by the family court to the aged woman cannot be termed on the higher side, considering that the husband receives ₹50,000 as pension, the high court said that the old-age pension was not enough even to meet medical expenses.
The petitioner’s main plea against the maintenance amount of ₹9,000 awarded by the family court to his estranged wife was that the amount was on the higher side, as his wife has been living in a house provided by him and gets ₹2,000 as old-age pension.
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