Women's Right To Claim Maintenance

The provisions of Maintenance to womens are intended to fulfill a social purpose.

- Dr. Sailaja. Petikam

These provision are contained in Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 under Sections 125 to 128, under the Hindu marriage Act 1955, under the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act,1956. Under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005, The Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007. The object of all these provision is to compel a man to perform the moral obligations, which he owes to the society in respect of his wife, children and parents. By provisions a simple and speedy but limited relief, These provision seek to ensure that the neglected wife and children are not left beggared and destitute on the scrapheap of society and there by driven to a life of vagrancy, immorality and crime for their subsistence. The inability of the wife, child and father or mother to maintain themselves could lead to Social problems and therefore, it became the concern of the state not to allow such inability to grow in to social problems of great magnitude unless the consequences of such inability were checked by providing appropriate measure, large scale vagrancy could be the probable off-shoot there from.