{"id":4085,"date":"2004-03-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/03\/30\/2004-03-30-new-delhi-high-court-judge-issues-new-ruling-for-financial-support-in-a-divided-family\/"},"modified":"2004-03-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-30T12:00:00","slug":"2004-03-30-new-delhi-high-court-judge-issues-new-ruling-for-financial-support-in-a-divided-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/03\/30\/2004-03-30-new-delhi-high-court-judge-issues-new-ruling-for-financial-support-in-a-divided-family\/","title":{"rendered":"New Delhi High Court Judge Issues New Ruling for Financial Support in a Divided Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/2004\/03\/22\/stories\/2004032209330400.htm\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>NEW DELHI, INDIA, March 22, 2004: Delhi High Court judge, Justice Vikramajit Sen, made history recently by ruling that &#8220;as much as one half of the husband&#8217;s earnings should be divided equally among the other members of the family.&#8221; He further added, &#8220;The archaic rule (of allowing only 1\/5th of the husband&#8217;s disposal income as alimony) was a vestige of a bygone era where the wife\/women was considered inferior to the husband as somewhat akin to his chattels. The courts have held that the deserted wife was entitled to an equal division of matrimonial assets. I would be extremely loath to restrict maintenance to 1\/5th of the husband&#8217;s income where this would be insufficient for the wife to live in a manner commensurate with her husband&#8217;s status or similar to the lifestyle enjoyed by her before the marital severance.&#8221; The article says, &#8220;The ruling came in case in which the court increased monthly maintenance paid by the husband to the wife from US$146 to $326, when the husband&#8217;s disposable income was $696 per month, and though it was also observed that the wife and child were actually entitled to $348.&#8221;<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceNEW DELHI, INDIA, March 22, 2004: Delhi High Court judge, Justice Vikramajit Sen, made history recently by ruling that &#8220;as,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}