respondent is not a mother and she is only a step-mother. Therefore she is not eligible for any maintenance in terms of the laws ... mother is entitled for maintenance? Section 125 provides for maintenance. The said section reads as under;
"125. Order for maintenance of wives, children
month each
to the applicant-mother.
3. The mother filed petition seeking enhancement of
maintenance under Section 127 Cr.P.C. It is averred ... duty to maintain mother. The Family Court taking note of the
changed circumstances pleaded by the mother with the meager
maintenance amount
Court below to the effect that the application for maintenance was not maintainable against the mother who is a female. The contention ... application for maintenance would have been rejected holding that application for maintenance was not maintainable against the mother and so the claim for maintenance
maintenance for the period anterior to the coming into force of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act . The period for which Rohini claimed maintenance ... substitute for the natural mother, and when the natural mother who is supplanted by a step-mother is alive, and is able to look after
mother and continued to
stay with her mother. Though the respondent made
request to hand over their child (daughter) to him but
the mother ... right of minor children staying
with their divorced mother to claim
maintenance under Sec 125 from their
Muslim father having sufficient means till
they attain
mother Meena, defendant and his mother
Sanjeevamma were all living together. Since the plaintiffs
mother was not willing to look after the aged mother ... look after his aged ailing mother.
Since the defendant agreed to keep his mother with him as
the plaintiffs mother was not willing for such
mother whether biological, adoptive, or step father
or step mother as the case may be whether or not
the father or mother of the senior ... step mother of this petitioners and they are
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having income, therefore, the step-mother is also entitled
for the maintenance.
12. Therefore, consider
mother whether biological, adoptive, or step father
or step mother as the case may be whether or not
the father or mother of the senior ... step mother of this petitioners and they are
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having income, therefore, the step-mother is also entitled
for the maintenance.
12. Therefore, consider
witnesses.
20. If respondent was making some payment to his
mother towards her maintenance, then it is always left open
for him to establish ... Section 126(1) an
application by the father or the mother claiming
maintenance has to be filed where the person from whom
maintenance is claimed
Section 126(1) Cr.P.C., an application
by the father/mother seeking maintenance has to be filed
where the person from whom maintenance ... Section 126(1) an application
by the father or the mother claiming maintenance
has to be filed where the person from whom
maintenance is claimed
