Alok Kumar v. Anupama Singh (Patna HC)

What the court was looking at

The marriage had run 15 years by the time it reached court, which puts it in the 7 to 15 years bracket. There were no children, which removes the largest single variable from the arithmetic. The husband was described as merchant navy master.

What makes it worth reading

Duty to ensure wife doesn't live in penury.

How it fits the framework

Since Rajnesh v. Neha in 2020, every maintenance order in India is meant to work through the same list of factors: the standard of living the marriage ran at, what the applicant reasonably needs, whether she is qualified and earning, and whether she gave up work for the family. A judgement from 2025 was decided before that list was written down, but the reasoning behind it is the reasoning courts had been applying for decades. There is a fuller account in how maintenance is calculated.

Judgements near this one

Ranked by court, then by income bracket and marriage length rather than by date, so the comparison is with cases a court would actually treat as similar. Every row links to its own page.