allowing past maintenance
only partly and denial of the claim of future maintenance to the
wife was improper, and fixation of the quantum of maintenance ... past maintenance and at the rate of Rs.2,500/- per mensum
as future maintenance payable by the respondent/father. Claim
of future maintenance
wife and child of the revision petitioner. While the quantum of
maintenance fixed by the Magistrate was Rs.150/- per month to
the wife ... Mavelikkara in Crl.R.P. No.85/1995 enhanced the quantum of
maintenance to the wife and child at the rate
Contentions are also raised that the quantum of maintenance
awarded is excessive. Thus the planks of challenge are:
(i) The finding regarding existence ... between the claimant and the petitioner is perverse and
(ii) The quantum of maintenance awarded is excessive.
7. I must at the very outset remind
month, the courts below
were perfectly justified in fixing the quantum of maintenance at
the rate of Rs.3,000/- per month during the period ... considering the fact of remarriage, the quantum of maintenance
per month for the purpose of fixing the fair and reasonable
provision has been reduced
Hindu Adoption and
Maintenance Act, 1956, claiming maintenance
allowance for them from the respondent. They claimed
maintenance allowance at the rate ... Hindu Adoption Maintenance Act and he is liable to
pay maintenance allowance for their livelihood.
9.While determining the quantum of maintenance
allowance
maintain
his child. Admittedly the respondent is
getting pension. The quantum of maintenance
awarded to the child by the family court was
palpably ... means for her maintenance.
9. What remains is fixation of quantum of
maintenance for the first petitioner. Again,
`500/- per month till the date
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the shares are involved in fixing the quantum of maintenance to be
paid by each of the relatives. In this case ... section (1) of Section 4 of the Act.
11. The quantum of maintenance cannot be fixed by looking into
the needs of the divorced woman
quantum
of the maintenance allowance. Put it differently, is the
quantum of maintenance allowance determined by the
court below proper and justifiable. Though the revision ... living
cost of the respondents, I find that the quantum of
maintenance allowance fixed by the Family Court is just
and proper and does
aged 3 years. The family court ought to have
determined the quantum of maintenance allowance after
balancing the income of the respondent as a driver ... aged 3
years. In the above view, we find that the quantum of
maintenance allowance determined by the family court is not
reasonable or justifiable
residing separately without
sufficient reason. Secondly it was contended that the quantum of
maintenance claimed is excessive.
4. The 1st claimant wife contended that ... that she lives with
him. Alternatively it is contended that the quantum of maintenance
awarded for the child and the wife is excessive. Thirdly
