Rajasthan HC: Maintenance Not a De-facto Claim to Share Husband’s Income or Property. Highly Qualified Wife’s Petition to Enhance Money in Short-Lived Marriage of 28 Days.
In Ritu Khatri v. Navneet Khanna, Rajasthan HC dismissed the revision petition filed by the wife challenging the amount of maintenance awarded by Family Court, whereby she was granted ₹8,000 per month as maintenance. She contended that the amount was grossly inadequate considering the husband’s income and status.
Court observed, “The law does not envisage that because the husband earns more, the wife must necessarily receive half or a substantial fraction thereof. Such an approach would amount to converting maintenance proceedings into a de facto claim for sharing of income or property, which is impermissible.”
The marriage between the petitioner and respondent...
