Five income bands
Judgements by the husband's income
The single most useful way to find a comparable case. Bands are applied to income in today's money, not to the rupee figure the court wrote down.
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Calculate your maintenance →Banding on nominal income would drop every pre-2000 case into the lowest bracket and make these pages useless. A husband earning Rs 20,000 a month in 1997 was not a low earner; that is about Rs 1.1 lakh a month now. Every case here is placed by what the income was actually worth.
By income
Where the husband earns under Rs 30,000 a month
17 judgementsBy income
Where the husband earns Rs 30,000 to Rs 60,000 a month
16 judgementsBy income
Where the husband earns Rs 60,000 to Rs 1.5 lakh a month
10 judgementsBy income
Where the husband earns Rs 1.5 lakh to Rs 5 lakh a month
7 judgementsBy income
Where the husband earns more than Rs 5 lakh a month
17 judgementsEvery judgement in the casebook went into the estimator.
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