Divorced daughters can receive share from father’s pension: SHC

The Sindh High Court (SHC) has ruled that a divorced daughter is also entitled to receive a share from the monthly pension of her deceased father until she marries again.

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The SHC also noted that realising the miseries and hardships faced by divorced and widowed daughters of deceased pensioners, the finance ministry had liberalised the pension rules in 1983 and thereafter, the status of divorced daughters had also been made equal to unmarried daughters.

While allowing a petition of a divorced woman, a two-judge constitutional bench comprising Justice Mohammad Karim Khan and Justice Nisar Anmed Bhanbhro directed the authorities to disburse an amount of the monthly pension of deceased pensioner to petitioner Sarwat Ghaziuddin being divorced daughter and other unmarried/widowed daughter(s) according to their shares preferably within a period of four months.