Section 19(4) Family Courts Act Archives

Husband cannot force wife to do household chores

Need permission to visit her parents but commanded to care for in-laws and do chores? Karnataka HC says marriage isn’t a relationship between unequals

The Court held that a woman has got fundamental and absolute right to make decisions concerning her career, finances, etc. and a husband cannot compel or coerce her to live according to his wishes and expectations.

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“Father can’t discriminate between educational expenses of son and daughter”: MP HC enhances maintenance granted to government servant’s wife and daughter

The Court stated that if the husband was bearing substantial expenses for the technical education of the major son, the same could not be a ground to restrict reasonable maintenance and educational support to the minor daughter.