Wife can’t claim maintenance if her acts render husband incapable: HC

THE Allahabad High Court has held that if a wife’s actions or omissions contribute to her husband’s incapacity to earn, she cannot claim maintenance from him.

- NAMITA BAJPAI @ Lucknow

While upholding the decision of Family Court, Kushinagar, which rejected the maintenance application of wife, the Allahabad High Court stated that granting maintenance in such a scenario would result in grave injustice, particularly when the husband's earning capacity was destroyed by the criminal acts of the wife’s family. A bench of Justice Lakshmi Kant Shukla dismissed the criminal revision petition filed by a woman for interim maintenance under Section 125 of the Criminal P