Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act 1956 Archives

Wife’s temporary job will not disentitle her to claim maintenance from husband, if income from said job is insufficient for her maintenance: Kerala HC

“The test is whether the wife is able to maintain herself more or less in the status, in which her husband has maintained her. The wife is entitled to live the same standard of life as she lived along with the husband.”

Cases Reported Never Reported Judgments

Never Reported Judgment | Adoption by wife against express prohibition by husband not valid regardless of the reasons for such prohibition [(1953) 1 SCC 656]

This report covers the Supreme Court’s Never Reported Judgment dating back to the year 1953 on adoption by a married Hindu female.

Cases Reported SCC Weekly

2024 SCC Vol. 3 Part 4

Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Ss. 34 and 5: Principles summarised re scope of interference by Court under S. 34. Supervisory,

Case Briefs High Courts

Maintenance proceedings under Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 are not suits, ad valorem court fee not liable to be paid: Delhi High Court

“The Family Courts Act, 1984 was enacted pursuant to the 59th Report of the Law Commission wherein it was stressed that in dealing with the disputes concerning the family, the family court should adopt an approach radically different from that adopted in ordinary civil proceedings.”

Case Briefs High Courts

Chhattisgarh High Court entitles father-in-law to pay maintenance; “Estate of the husband can be preferred to claim over the estate of father or mother of daughter in law”

Chhattisgarh High Court: A Division Bench of Goutam Bhaduri and Deepak Kumar Tiwari JJ. entitled father-in-law to pay maintenance to widowed daughter-in-law