Whether a Court, which passed an order of maintenance under Section 125 and 127 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, is competent to execute the order against a person, who has been residing in a place outside the jurisdiction of the Court, which passed the order? This question has been answered by the Kerala High …
Under Section 125 CrPC, a Magistrate can pass a maintainence order against a person having sufficient means neglects or refuses to maintain; The question is whether a wife can choose to seek maintenance from her major son instead of seeking it from her husband? If we read Section 125 CrPC, we can see that maintenance …
In Sadashiv vs Vijayalaxmi , a widow filed a petition under Section 125 of Cr.P.C. against her father-in-law for maintenance and the same was allowed by the Family Court. Allowing the appeal, the Karnataka High Court observed that the maintenance petition against the father-in-law is not maintainable. It referred to the following observations made in an earlier decision in …
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Is Section 125 CrPC maintenance petition filed after a mutual consent divorce + final settlement maintainable? Section 125(4) provides that no wife shall be entitled to receive an allowance for the maintenance or the interim maintenance and expenses of proceeding, as the case may be, from her husband under this section if she is living …
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