A recent judgment by Supreme Court has caused a minor earthquake in manosphere, since the same SC judgment was reported by a major newspaper with the headline that SC has set 25% of husband’s (net) salary as a benchmark amount of maintenance/alimony to wife. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/supreme-court-sets-alimony-benchmark-25-of-ex-husbands-net-salary/articleshow/58288399.cms It’s not just the youthful and “our opinion” papers like TOI, but even business papers have started reporting similar ‘benchmark’ type news, basically they are just doing copy-paste reporting from the first news written with a catchy headline: http://www.livemint.com/Politics/MGxqoOu55sw6VN7Jppo8EL/SC-sets-25-of-exhusbands-net-salary-as-benchmark-for-alim.html Immediately, those husbands who are having pending matrimonial litigation started re-calculating what damage this judgment can do …[Continue Reading]
Maintenance to wife under DV Act rejected by Pune court because she was working earlier, and now spending time chatting on Facebook and Gmail
One of our group members from Pune sent a clipping of news of maintenance denied to wife from a Marathi newspaper. His comment below: This order is of rejected maintenance to wife. Maintenance rejected because husband provided proofs of her Facebook and gmail accounts that she was chatting with her friends. Also proofs were provided of her mobile call records, and it was told to court that mother and sister both are working as well as petitioner was working before but not now. Keeping all this in mind there is no need of maintenance to wife. The news clipping is …[Continue Reading]
Delhi Mahila court denies maintenance to doctor wife from doctor husband
Found this news full judgment of Nov 2014 about a maintenance judgment in a Mahila court in Delhi where maintenance was denied to a woman doctor earning 21,200 p.m. I was aware of something called Mahila thana (women’s police station) which are supposed to make women feel comfortable to file complaint in front of women policepersons. But don’t know what exactly is this phenomenon called Mahila court and the logic behind it, since delivery of justice and courts are something where everyone irrespective of gender, caste, religion will be received equally without prejudice! So what is the logic behind Mahila …[Continue Reading]
Gujarat HC allows examining account books of wife’s employer in maintenance case
Short summary: To prove his wife is working and not entitled to maintenance, a Gujarat man gives video evidence of wife working in a firm, the firm owner refuses to identify that woman, court denies man’s request to get account books of firm to confirm salary being paid to wife, and HC overturns trial court order to allow producing the account books. Man does sting on wife to establish her income To prove his wife’s employment, Rajesh called the firm’s owner as a witness, who said that Meena was not working in his firm. Rajesh produced a video recording in …[Continue Reading]
Delhi sessions court asks woman to find job within a year, grants maintenance
In an encouraging development for married men – and maybe women too who don’t believe women should be living like parasites – a Delhi sessions court has asked a woman who asked for maintenance to find work within 1 year. Even though additional maintenance amount of 10,000 was granted for 1 year, the condition to find work seems unbelievable because of the maintenance regime in the India so far has been just-ask-for-maintenance-you-will-get-something-no-matter-your-own-role-in-the-problem. From: Delhi court asks woman to find job within a year, grants maintenance “The woman shall during the period of one year look for a job and start …[Continue Reading]
Woman can’t evict husband just because she pays EMI: Mumbai Family Court
Woman can’t evict hubby just because she pays EMI: Mumbai Family Court MUMBAI: A family court on Monday rejected a wife’s interim plea seeking her estranged husband’s removal from their Lokhandwala flat where she stays with him and their child, just because she pays the EMI (equated monthly installment to repay home loan). The court, while ruling in favour of the man who pays Rs 90,000 a month for household expenses, said in the current day, it is difficult to ascertain who has contributed how much while purchasing any asset or discharging any liability. “If both contribute to the household, …[Continue Reading]
How to assess maintenance amount likely to be ordered in CrPC 125 or HMA 24
This is a perennial question asked by men facing marital issues and one of these maintenance cases: CrPC 125 Sec 24 of Hindu Marriage Act (HMA 24) Maintenance asked in petition filed under DV Act (the maintenance proceedings run under CrPC 125) It seems no amount of replies as to how it will be calculated is enough. Maybe when the mind gets into an obsessive mode thinking about something, it asks the same thing again and again no matter how many answers anyone else can provide, be they laymen or experts it doesn’t matter much! So instead of attempting to …[Continue Reading]
No monetary relief under Section 20 of DV Act (PWDVA) unless domestic violence proved – Mumbai HC
I think this is a very important judgment about grant of any kind of monetary relief including maintenance to wives under Protection of Women from Domestic Violence act. It says that unless the domestic violence alleged in the complaint is proven, no relief can be granted under Section 20 of the DV Act which grants monetary relief. So bye bye to those complaints where wife says “I was not given food”, “I was locked in the bathroom” and the standard template of DV allegations. Let them prove their allegations, or find a real job rather than filing cases on husbands …[Continue Reading]
Men ki Baat – Counselling, Discussion of personal cases on WhatsApp and Facebook
Update 9th Jan 2016: Many people are sending joining requests in Facebook group hoping to get some knowledge and shared expertise about divorce. MRI WhatsApp and Facebook groups are NOT meant for discussion on divorce, since that is not part of our men’s rights and social work. And most people have no clue about how to get divorce themselves that they can help someone else, not that they would want to anyway. Read this post on Dangers of filing divorce by husbands — and if you are still keen to do so, then only paid guidance is given at Man …[Continue Reading]
What should be my stand in court?
Hmmm… I find the question quite perplexing, when a man is facing a false 498a or DV (Domestic Violence) case or an unjustifiable demand for maintenance from wife: “what should be my stand in court?” How about: “I’m innocent! Let the law take its course.” Apparently for 80-95% of Indian husbands, that’s too much complication. They want to have a ‘stand’ which will achieve the following for them: If they are fearing IPC 498a, then anticipatory bail should be easy to get. (Note: after Jul 2014 SC judgment, it appears arrests have drastically come down so this concern should reduce) …[Continue Reading]
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