entitled to any maintenance and in fact under the
guise of maintenance for herself, she is actually claiming daughter's
maintenance. It is specifically ... where the
maintenance can be granted to the minor children only and the major
daughter cannot claim maintenance through her mother. The Judge
Family Court
Magistrate is competent to make a monthly allowance for the maintenance of mother.
19. It is tried to be argued on behalf of the petitioner ... order of maintenance.
27. Learned Judge, Family Court, has awarded very reasonable amount of maintenance to the mother. Admittedly, petitioner is getting net income
Borr., 488, 491), a daughter-in-law (Rumabai) obtained maintenance from her mother-in-law (Thakoobai). There was not any allegation that the deceased husband ... family debts, and, therefore, had precedence over the maintenance of herself and her mother-in-law.
29. In Ahilabai v. Mohunji (9 Harr
death of his father, was sued by his step-mother for maintenance and in the suit a consent decree was passed directing him to make ... were the executors and trustees of a will, had paid maintenance allowances to the mother and widow of the testator. The Supreme Court approved
which confers an independent right upon a father or mother to claim maintenance. It is pertinent to note that this clause is newly added ... conferre a new right upon the indigent father and mother to claim maintenance, by enacting sub-cl. (d) in S. 125(1); hence by interpretative
secure provision under the direction of the Court, the widowed mother or step-mother may demand, at least, an equal protection. Her right, then, though ... special kind, enforceable in all cases in which the mother or step-mother living apart is not maintained by the sons, but not in other
maintenance petition, that would not preclude the mother from filing
petition for maintenance for herself and her daughter, who was admittedly
staying with ... said Act of 1956, the daughter is
entitled to receive maintenance from her mother or father till her marriage.
17. Applying the principle underlying
their maintenance since he stopped payment and future maintenance until they attained majority.
3. It is well settled that among the Hanafis mother ... suit for recovery of maintenance, "the rules of maintenance, so far as the children are concerned, have got really nothing to do with
allotted to him subject to the claim of his mother and sister for maintenance. On October 1,1929, a preliminary decree for partition was pronounced ... Biswanath and those only should stand charged with the maintenance of his mother and sister, and not the properties allotted
to the appellants. A final
adoptive mother as a 'mother'.
28. Hence, the adoptive mother becomes his female parent and would therefore be a mother of the adoptive ... step mother and that of an adoptive mother. Besides, the facts of that case were peculiar. The step mother claimed maintenance from her step
