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   "name": "P&H HC Wife Concealing Income Employment Assets Maintenance Denied",
   "citation": null,
   "year": 2026,
   "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
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   "reason": null,
   "duration": null,
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   "husband_income": null,
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   "wife_profession": null,
   "maintenance_type": null,
   "outcome": "maintenance_u/s_125",
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   "named": true,
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   "amount_today": null,
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   "husband_income_today": null,
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   "inflation_material": false,
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   "income_band_label": null,
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   "duration_band_label": null,
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   "score": 1,
   "slug": "p-h-hc-wife-concealing-income-employment-assets-maintenance-denied",
   "has_page": false
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  {
   "name": "PMH v. SW",
   "citation": "WP No. 33410 of 2025",
   "year": 2026,
   "court": "Karnataka High Court",
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   "source_url": "https://www.verdictum.in/karnataka-high-court/pmh-v-sw-husband-unemployed-wife-employed-maintenance-divorce-past-income-1612734",
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   "reason": null,
   "duration": null,
   "children": null,
   "husband_income": 40000,
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   "outcome": "Karnataka HC upheld Rs 20000/month interim maintenance; wife earning Rs 40000/month; husband unemployed but past lucrative income proves earning capacity; wife's modest salary does not bridge status gap from matrimonial home; Rs 70000 originally sought by wife; 2026",
   "notes": "Karnataka HC upheld Rs 20000/month interim maintenance; wife earning Rs 40000/month; husband unemployed but past lucrative income proves earning capacity; wife's modest salary does not bridge status gap from matrimonial home; Rs 70000 originally sought by wife; 2026",
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   "duration_band_label": null,
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   "score": 11,
   "slug": "pmh-v-sw",
   "has_page": true
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  {
   "name": "Rajasthan HC High Income Husband Does Not Mean High Maintenance 57 Day Marriage",
   "citation": null,
   "year": 2026,
   "court": "Rajasthan High Court",
   "court_slug": "rajasthan-high-court",
   "source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/rajasthan-high-court/rajasthan-high-court-maintenance-income-sharing-521611",
   "amount": 8000,
   "amount_type": "monthly",
   "child_maintenance": null,
   "reason": null,
   "duration": 0,
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   "husband_income": null,
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   "wife_profession": null,
   "maintenance_type": "maintenance_u/s_125",
   "outcome": "granted",
   "notes": "57-day marriage; high income of husband does not automatically translate to proportionate high maintenance; length of marriage relevant factor",
   "named": true,
   "amount_type_label": "Monthly",
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   "statute": "Section 125 CrPC",
   "statute_guide": "section-125-crpc-maintenance",
   "outcome_label": "Granted",
   "amount_today": 8000,
   "child_maintenance_today": null,
   "husband_income_today": null,
   "wife_income_today": null,
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   "inflation_material": false,
   "income_band": null,
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   "duration_band_label": "under 3 years",
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   "score": 7,
   "slug": "rajasthan-hc-high-income-husband-does-not-mean-high-maintenance-57-day",
   "has_page": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Rajasthan HC Second Wife Void Marriage Both Spouses Had Living Partners Maintenance Denied",
   "citation": null,
   "year": 2026,
   "court": "Rajasthan High Court",
   "court_slug": "rajasthan-high-court",
   "source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/rajasthan-high-court/rajasthan-high-court-second-wife-void-marriage-maintenance-sec125-crpc-532636",
   "amount": 0,
   "amount_type": null,
   "child_maintenance": null,
   "reason": null,
   "duration": null,
   "children": 0,
   "husband_income": null,
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   "husband_profession": null,
   "wife_profession": null,
   "maintenance_type": null,
   "outcome": "maintenance_u/s_125",
   "notes": "denied",
   "named": true,
   "amount_type_label": null,
   "amount_unit": "",
   "statute": "Section 125 CrPC",
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   "outcome_label": null,
   "amount_today": null,
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   "husband_income_today": null,
   "wife_income_today": null,
   "inflation_factor": 1.0,
   "inflation_material": false,
   "income_band": null,
   "income_band_label": null,
   "duration_band": null,
   "duration_band_label": null,
   "decade": "2020s",
   "score": 4,
   "slug": "rajasthan-hc-second-wife-void-marriage-both-spouses-had-living-partner",
   "has_page": false
  },
  {
   "name": "Rakesh Ray v. Priti Ray",
   "citation": "2026 SCC OnLine Del 757",
   "year": 2026,
   "court": "Delhi High Court",
   "court_slug": "delhi-high-court",
   "source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/delhi-high-court/home-maker-salary-economic-value-contribution-to-house-523923",
   "amount": 50000,
   "amount_type": "monthly",
   "child_maintenance": 40000,
   "reason": null,
   "duration": null,
   "children": null,
   "husband_income": 450000,
   "wife_income": null,
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   "wife_profession": "Drilling engineer in Kuwait",
   "maintenance_type": "DV Act (PWDVA)",
   "outcome": "granted",
   "notes": "Homemaker does not sit idle; economic value of wife's contribution must be recognised; FDs exceeding Rs 1 crore; husband drilling engineer in Kuwait",
   "named": true,
   "amount_type_label": "Monthly",
   "amount_unit": "a month",
   "statute": "Domestic Violence Act 2005",
   "statute_guide": null,
   "outcome_label": "Granted",
   "amount_today": 50000,
   "child_maintenance_today": 40000,
   "husband_income_today": 450000,
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   "inflation_factor": 1.0,
   "inflation_material": false,
   "income_band": "1.5l-5l",
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   "duration_band": null,
   "duration_band_label": null,
   "decade": "2020s",
   "score": 11,
   "slug": "rakesh-ray-v-priti-ray",
   "has_page": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Ravinder Singh Bisht v. State of UP",
   "citation": "2026 LiveLaw (AB) 77",
   "year": 2026,
   "court": "Allahabad High Court",
   "court_slug": "allahabad-high-court",
   "source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/allahabad-high-court/allahabad-hc-employment-wife-no-ground-deny-maintenance-disparity-earning-husband-523199",
   "amount": 15000,
   "amount_type": "monthly",
   "child_maintenance": null,
   "reason": null,
   "duration": null,
   "children": null,
   "husband_income": null,
   "wife_income": 4000000,
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   "wife_profession": "JPMorgan employee (Annual package Rs 40L)",
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   "outcome": "Section 125 CrPC",
   "notes": "granted",
   "named": true,
   "amount_type_label": "Monthly",
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   "statute": "Section 125 CrPC",
   "statute_guide": "section-125-crpc-maintenance",
   "outcome_label": null,
   "amount_today": 15000,
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   "wife_income_today": 4000000,
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   "inflation_material": false,
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   "duration_band_label": null,
   "decade": "2020s",
   "score": 7,
   "slug": "ravinder-singh-bisht-v-state-of-up",
   "has_page": true
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  {
   "name": "SC 54-yr Govt Employee Divorce Refused",
   "citation": null,
   "year": 2026,
   "court": "Supreme Court of India",
   "court_slug": "supreme-court",
   "source_url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/relax-pay-maintenance-be-happy-supreme-court-to-54-year-old-man-seeking-divorce-from-estranged-wife",
   "amount": 15000,
   "amount_type": "monthly",
   "child_maintenance": null,
   "reason": null,
   "duration": 16,
   "children": null,
   "husband_income": 65000,
   "wife_income": null,
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   "wife_profession": null,
   "maintenance_type": "Section 125 CrPC",
   "outcome": "granted",
   "notes": "SC: 15000 is hardly anything; man told to relax and keep paying",
   "named": false,
   "amount_type_label": "Monthly",
   "amount_unit": "a month",
   "statute": "Section 125 CrPC",
   "statute_guide": "section-125-crpc-maintenance",
   "outcome_label": "Granted",
   "amount_today": 15000,
   "child_maintenance_today": null,
   "husband_income_today": 65000,
   "wife_income_today": null,
   "inflation_factor": 1.0,
   "inflation_material": false,
   "income_band": "60k-1.5l",
   "income_band_label": "Rs 60,000 to Rs 1.5 lakh a month",
   "duration_band": "over-15-years",
   "duration_band_label": "over 15 years",
   "decade": "2020s",
   "score": 12,
   "slug": "sc-54-yr-govt-employee-divorce-refused",
   "has_page": false
  },
  {
   "name": "SC Employer Salary Deduction Case",
   "citation": null,
   "year": 2026,
   "court": "Supreme Court of India",
   "court_slug": "supreme-court",
   "source_url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/after-man-refuses-to-pay-maintenance-to-wife-supreme-court-orders-his-employer-to-deduct-the-amount-from-salary",
   "amount": 25000,
   "amount_type": "monthly",
   "child_maintenance": null,
   "reason": null,
   "duration": null,
   "children": null,
   "husband_income": null,
   "wife_income": null,
   "husband_profession": "Rishad Shipping Clearing Agency",
   "wife_profession": null,
   "maintenance_type": "Section 125 CrPC",
   "outcome": "granted",
   "notes": "SC ordered employer to deduct Rs 25000 from salary after husband refused; 4-yr abandoned wife and daughter",
   "named": false,
   "amount_type_label": "Monthly",
   "amount_unit": "a month",
   "statute": "Section 125 CrPC",
   "statute_guide": "section-125-crpc-maintenance",
   "outcome_label": "Granted",
   "amount_today": 25000,
   "child_maintenance_today": null,
   "husband_income_today": null,
   "wife_income_today": null,
   "inflation_factor": 1.0,
   "inflation_material": false,
   "income_band": null,
   "income_band_label": null,
   "duration_band": null,
   "duration_band_label": null,
   "decade": "2020s",
   "score": 9,
   "slug": "sc-employer-salary-deduction-case",
   "has_page": false
  },
  {
   "name": "SC Enhanced Alimony Doctor Husband Educated Wife Duty To Maintain",
   "citation": null,
   "year": 2026,
   "court": "Supreme Court",
   "court_slug": "supreme-court",
   "source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/amp/supreme-court/husbands-duty-to-maintain-ex-wife-after-divorce-wont-end-on-mere-ground-that-she-is-educated-or-has-parental-support-521894",
   "amount": 30000,
   "amount_type": "monthly",
   "child_maintenance": null,
   "reason": null,
   "duration": null,
   "children": null,
   "husband_income": 160000,
   "wife_income": null,
   "husband_profession": "doctor",
   "wife_profession": null,
   "maintenance_type": "permanent_alimony",
   "outcome": "enhanced",
   "notes": "Enhanced from 15000 to 30000/month; husband doctor income 1.6 lakh; wife educated but duty to maintain does not end on education or parental support",
   "named": false,
   "amount_type_label": "Monthly",
   "amount_unit": "a month",
   "statute": "Section 25 HMA",
   "statute_guide": "hindu-marriage-act-alimony",
   "outcome_label": "Enhanced on appeal",
   "amount_today": 30000,
   "child_maintenance_today": null,
   "husband_income_today": 160000,
   "wife_income_today": null,
   "inflation_factor": 1.0,
   "inflation_material": false,
   "income_band": "1.5l-5l",
   "income_band_label": "Rs 1.5 lakh to Rs 5 lakh a month",
   "duration_band": null,
   "duration_band_label": null,
   "decade": "2020s",
   "score": 11,
   "slug": "sc-enhanced-alimony-doctor-husband-educated-wife-duty-to-maintain",
   "has_page": false
  },
  {
   "name": "SC Ex-Wife Educated Parental Support 2026",
   "citation": "unreported",
   "year": 2026,
   "court": "Supreme Court of India",
   "court_slug": "supreme-court",
   "source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/amp/supreme-court/husbands-duty-to-maintain-ex-wife-after-divorce-wont-end-on-mere-ground-that-she-is-educated-or-has-parental-support-521894",
   "amount": null,
   "amount_type": null,
   "child_maintenance": null,
   "reason": null,
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   "children": null,
   "husband_income": null,
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   "wife_profession": null,
   "maintenance_type": "permanent",
   "outcome": "granted",
   "notes": "SC held husband's duty to maintain ex-wife after divorce does not end merely because she is educated or has parental support; wife's education and family support not grounds to deny or reduce permanent alimony post-divorce",
   "named": false,
   "amount_type_label": null,
   "amount_unit": "",
   "statute": null,
   "statute_guide": null,
   "outcome_label": "Granted",
   "amount_today": null,
   "child_maintenance_today": null,
   "husband_income_today": null,
   "wife_income_today": null,
   "inflation_factor": 1.0,
   "inflation_material": false,
   "income_band": null,
   "income_band_label": null,
   "duration_band": null,
   "duration_band_label": null,
   "decade": "2020s",
   "score": 11,
   "slug": "sc-ex-wife-educated-parental-support-2026",
   "has_page": false
  },
  {
   "name": "SC Husband Claimed Cannot Afford 12000 Monthly Maintenance No One Earns 9000 Today Upheld",
   "citation": null,
   "year": 2026,
   "court": "Supreme Court",
   "court_slug": "supreme-court",
   "source_url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/no-one-earns-9k-a-month-these-days-supreme-court-to-man-who-said-he-cant-afford-12k-maintenance-to-wife",
   "amount": 12000,
   "amount_type": "monthly",
   "child_maintenance": null,
   "reason": null,
   "duration": null,
   "children": null,
   "husband_income": 9000,
   "wife_income": null,
   "husband_profession": null,
   "wife_profession": null,
   "maintenance_type": "maintenance_u/s_125",
   "outcome": "granted",
   "notes": "Husband claimed income 9000/month and cannot afford 12000 maintenance; SC observed no one earns only 9000 today; 12000/month maintenance upheld",
   "named": false,
   "amount_type_label": "Monthly",
   "amount_unit": "a month",
   "statute": "Section 125 CrPC",
   "statute_guide": "section-125-crpc-maintenance",
   "outcome_label": "Granted",
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   "child_maintenance_today": null,
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   "wife_income_today": null,
   "inflation_factor": 1.0,
   "inflation_material": false,
   "income_band": "under-30k",
   "income_band_label": "under Rs 30,000 a month",
   "duration_band": null,
   "duration_band_label": null,
   "decade": "2020s",
   "score": 11,
   "slug": "sc-husband-claimed-cannot-afford-12000-monthly-maintenance-no-one-earn",
   "has_page": false
  },
  {
   "name": "SC Man Claiming 325 Per Day Ordered Pay 10000 Monthly Maintenance Estranged Wife",
   "citation": null,
   "year": 2026,
   "court": "Supreme Court",
   "court_slug": "supreme-court",
   "source_url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/man-who-claimed-he-earns-325-per-day-ordered-by-supreme-court-to-pay-10000-per-month-to-estranged-wife",
   "amount": 10000,
   "amount_type": "monthly",
   "child_maintenance": null,
   "reason": null,
   "duration": null,
   "children": null,
   "husband_income": 9750,
   "wife_income": null,
   "husband_profession": null,
   "wife_profession": null,
   "maintenance_type": "maintenance_u/s_125",
   "outcome": "granted",
   "notes": "Husband claimed earning 325/day (9750/month); SC ordered 10000/month maintenance; court not bound by self-declared income when husband is able-bodied",
   "named": false,
   "amount_type_label": "Monthly",
   "amount_unit": "a month",
   "statute": "Section 125 CrPC",
   "statute_guide": "section-125-crpc-maintenance",
   "outcome_label": "Granted",
   "amount_today": 10000,
   "child_maintenance_today": null,
   "husband_income_today": 9750,
   "wife_income_today": null,
   "inflation_factor": 1.0,
   "inflation_material": false,
   "income_band": "under-30k",
   "income_band_label": "under Rs 30,000 a month",
   "duration_band": null,
   "duration_band_label": null,
   "decade": "2020s",
   "score": 11,
   "slug": "sc-man-claiming-325-per-day-ordered-pay-10000-monthly-maintenance-estr",
   "has_page": false
  },
  {
   "name": "SC Matrimonial Battle of Mahabharata Lawyer Husband",
   "citation": null,
   "year": 2026,
   "court": "Supreme Court of India",
   "court_slug": "supreme-court",
   "source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/supreme-court/matrimonial-battle-of-mahabharata-supreme-court-dissolves-10-year-estranged-marriage-quashes-80-cases-between-couple-529612",
   "amount": 50000000,
   "amount_type": "lump_sum",
   "child_maintenance": null,
   "reason": "10",
   "duration": 1,
   "children": null,
   "husband_income": null,
   "wife_income": null,
   "husband_profession": null,
   "wife_profession": "Lawyer",
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   "outcome": "Article 142",
   "notes": "settled",
   "named": false,
   "amount_type_label": "One-time settlement",
   "amount_unit": "as a one-time settlement",
   "statute": "Article 142",
   "statute_guide": null,
   "outcome_label": null,
   "amount_today": 50000000,
   "child_maintenance_today": null,
   "husband_income_today": null,
   "wife_income_today": null,
   "inflation_factor": 1.0,
   "inflation_material": false,
   "income_band": null,
   "income_band_label": null,
   "duration_band": "under-3-years",
   "duration_band_label": "under 3 years",
   "decade": "2020s",
   "score": 9,
   "slug": "sc-matrimonial-battle-of-mahabharata-lawyer-husband",
   "has_page": false
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  {
   "name": "SC Rs 325/Day Earner Ordered 10000/Month",
   "citation": null,
   "year": 2026,
   "court": "Supreme Court of India",
   "court_slug": "supreme-court",
   "source_url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/man-who-claimed-he-earns-325-per-day-ordered-by-supreme-court-to-pay-10000-per-month-to-estranged-wife",
   "amount": 10000,
   "amount_type": "monthly",
   "child_maintenance": null,
   "reason": null,
   "duration": null,
   "children": null,
   "husband_income": 9750,
   "wife_income": null,
   "husband_profession": "daily wage",
   "wife_profession": null,
   "maintenance_type": "Section 125 CrPC",
   "outcome": "granted",
   "notes": "SC skeptical of Rs 325/day income claim; beg borrow steal principle",
   "named": false,
   "amount_type_label": "Monthly",
   "amount_unit": "a month",
   "statute": "Section 125 CrPC",
   "statute_guide": "section-125-crpc-maintenance",
   "outcome_label": "Granted",
   "amount_today": 10000,
   "child_maintenance_today": null,
   "husband_income_today": 9750,
   "wife_income_today": null,
   "inflation_factor": 1.0,
   "inflation_material": false,
   "income_band": "under-30k",
   "income_band_label": "under Rs 30,000 a month",
   "duration_band": null,
   "duration_band_label": null,
   "decade": "2020s",
   "score": 11,
   "slug": "sc-rs-325-day-earner-ordered-10000-month",
   "has_page": false
  },
  {
   "name": "SC Rs 9k Not Sufficient Case 2026",
   "citation": "unreported",
   "year": 2026,
   "court": "Supreme Court of India",
   "court_slug": "supreme-court",
   "source_url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/no-one-earns-9k-a-month-these-days-supreme-court-to-man-who-said-he-cant-afford-12k-maintenance-to-wife",
   "amount": 12000,
   "amount_type": "monthly",
   "child_maintenance": null,
   "reason": null,
   "duration": null,
   "children": null,
   "husband_income": null,
   "wife_income": 9000,
   "husband_profession": null,
   "wife_profession": null,
   "maintenance_type": "monthly",
   "outcome": "granted",
   "notes": "Man claimed earning only Rs 9000/month and could not afford Rs 12000 maintenance; SC remarked 'No one earns Rs 9k a month these days'; SC upheld Rs 12000/month maintenance order; March 2026",
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   "name": "ABC v. XYZ",
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   "year": 2025,
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   "name": "M.V. Leelavathi v. Dr. C.R. Swamy",
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   "year": 2025,
   "court": "Supreme Court of India",
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   "name": "MAK v. AKK",
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   "court": "Bombay High Court",
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   "duration_band_label": null,
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   "name": "MMM v. AAA",
   "citation": null,
   "year": 2025,
   "court": "Bombay High Court",
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   "name": "MP HC Husband Shirking Liability Enjoying Expensive Bikes Maintenance Wife Kids Upheld",
   "citation": null,
   "year": 2025,
   "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
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   "source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court-maintenance-wife-husband-304773",
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   "name": "MP HC Section 498A Acquittal Maintenance",
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   "notes": "MP HC held acquittal of husband in Section 498A IPC case (cruelty) is not ground to deny maintenance to wife and minor child; proceedings under Section 125 CrPC are summary in nature; wife only needs to prove inability to maintain herself and husband's sufficient means; 2025",
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   "name": "Madan Kumar Satpathy v. Priyadarshini Pati",
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   "name": "Madras HC Cognizant Wife Case",
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   "year": 2025,
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   "amount": 0,
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   "name": "Madras HC Husband Children Legal Moral Duty",
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   "year": 2025,
   "court": "Madras High Court",
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   "source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/madras-high-court/madras-high-court-man-legal-and-moral-duty-to-maintain-wife-mother-305159",
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   "name": "Manoj Kumar v. Sushma Dey",
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   "slug": "manoj-kumar-v-sushma-dey",
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   "name": "Mohammed Shami v. Hasin Jahan (Calcutta HC)",
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   "year": 2025,
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   "husband_income": null,
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   "outcome": "DV Act Section 23",
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  {
   "name": "Mrs. Devika Jain v. Sidharth Jain",
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   "source_url": "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/delhi-high-court/mrs-devika-jain-v-sidharth-jain-2025dhc11985-husbands-earning-foreign-currency-convert-indian-currency-maintenance-1603321",
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   "name": "N. Usha Rani and Anr. v. Moodudula Srinivas",
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   "name": "Neelam Walia v. Sanjay Walia",
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   "year": 2025,
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   "named": true,
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   "name": "SC Divorced Wife Standard Living 2025",
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   "notes": "SC enhanced permanent alimony from Calcutta HC award of Rs 20000/month (+ 5% every 3 years) to Rs 50000/month + 5% every 2 years; 1997 marriage separated 2008; wife remaining unmarried entitled to maintenance reflective of standard of life during marriage; inflation-linked enhancement",
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   "name": "SC LinkedIn BMW Rs 12 Crore Rejected",
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   "name": "SC LinkedIn Profile Not Reliable Income Proof Wife 12 Crore BMW Alimony Demand Rejected",
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   "name": "SC MBA Wife 8 Year Dispute Settled Mumbai Flat Alimony 12 Crore BMW Demand Rejected",
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   "name": "SC Rare Waiver Alimony Appreciated 2025",
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   "year": 2025,
   "court": "Supreme Court of India",
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   "name": "SC Relax Pay Maintenance Be Happy 2025",
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   "year": 2025,
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   "name": "SC Rs 1.25 Crore Alimony Article 142 2025",
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   "year": 2025,
   "court": "Supreme Court of India",
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   "source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/supreme-court/supreme-court-orders-husband-to-pay-rs-125-crores-permanent-alimony-to-wife-while-dissolving-marriage-301217",
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   "name": "SC Rs 9000 Income Cannot Afford Rs 12000",
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   "name": "SC Separated First Wife Maintenance 2025",
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   "name": "Subal Das v. Mousumi Saha Das",
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  {
   "name": "Jaspreet Singh v. Swaneet Kukreja",
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   "name": "SC 74-yr Man Jail Civil Prison",
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   "year": 2021,
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   "name": "Rajnesh v. Neha & Anr.",
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  {
   "name": "Sanjay Damodar Kale v. Kalyani Sanjay Kale",
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  {
   "name": "Hari Har Raj Kalingarayar v. Aarti",
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   "name": "Reema Salkan v. Sumer Singh Salkan",
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   "name": "Suchitra v. Zubin Shekary",
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   "name": "Kalyan Dey Chowdhury v. Rita Dey Chowdhury",
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   "name": "Bindu Chaudhary v. Deepak Suga",
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  {
   "name": "Shamima Farooqui v. Shahid Khan",
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   "name": "Bhuwan Mohan Singh v. Meena",
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   "name": "Shamim Bano v. Asraf Khan",
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  {
   "name": "Sunita Kachwaha v. Anil Kachwaha",
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   "name": "Vidhya Viswanathan v. Kartik Balakrishnan",
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   "name": "Badshah v. Urmila Badshah Godse",
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   "name": "U. Sree v. U. Srinivas",
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   "name": "Vishwanath Agrawal v. Sarla",
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   "name": "Rani Sethi v. Sunil Sethi",
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  {
   "name": "Vinny Parmvir Parmar v. Parmvir Parmar",
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   "slug": "vinny-parmvir-parmar-v-parmvir-parmar",
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  {
   "name": "Bhushan Kumar Meen v. Mansi Meen",
   "citation": "(2010) 15 SCC 372",
   "year": 2010,
   "court": "Supreme Court of India",
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   "source_url": null,
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  {
   "name": "Anu Kaul v. Rajeev Kaul",
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   "year": 2009,
   "court": "Supreme Court of India",
   "court_slug": "supreme-court",
   "source_url": null,
   "amount": 0,
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   "slug": "anu-kaul-v-rajeev-kaul",
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  {
   "name": "Chaturbhuj v. Sita Bai",
   "citation": "(2008) 2 SCC 316",
   "year": 2008,
   "court": "Supreme Court of India",
   "court_slug": "supreme-court",
   "source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1720873/",
   "amount": null,
   "amount_type": null,
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   "notes": "Earning wife with insufficient income still entitled",
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   "amount_type_label": null,
   "amount_unit": "",
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   "outcome_label": "Granted",
   "amount_today": null,
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   "score": 14,
   "slug": "chaturbhuj-v-sita-bai",
   "has_page": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Bharat Hegde v. Saroj Hegde",
   "citation": "140 (2007) DLT 16",
   "year": 2007,
   "court": "Delhi High Court",
   "court_slug": "delhi-high-court",
   "source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/260066/",
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   "notes": "11-factor framework laid down",
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   "amount_type_label": "Monthly",
   "amount_unit": "a month",
   "statute": "Section 24 HMA",
   "statute_guide": "hindu-marriage-act-alimony",
   "outcome_label": "Granted",
   "amount_today": 83083,
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   "inflation_material": true,
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   "score": 7,
   "slug": "bharat-hegde-v-saroj-hegde",
   "has_page": true
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  {
   "name": "Annurita Vohra v. Sandeep Vohra",
   "citation": "110 (2004) DLT 546",
   "year": 2004,
   "court": "Delhi High Court",
   "court_slug": "delhi-high-court",
   "source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1965969/",
   "amount": 18000,
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   "husband_income": 32000,
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   "maintenance_type": "Section 24 HMA",
   "outcome": "granted",
   "notes": "Family Resource Cake formula applied",
   "named": true,
   "amount_type_label": "Monthly",
   "amount_unit": "a month",
   "statute": "Section 24 HMA",
   "statute_guide": "hindu-marriage-act-alimony",
   "outcome_label": "Granted",
   "amount_today": 70179,
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   "inflation_material": true,
   "income_band": "60k-1.5l",
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   "duration_band_label": null,
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   "slug": "annurita-vohra-v-sandeep-vohra",
   "has_page": true
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  {
   "name": "Danial Latifi v. Union of India",
   "citation": "(2001) 7 SCC 740",
   "year": 2001,
   "court": "Supreme Court of India",
   "court_slug": "supreme-court",
   "source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/410660/",
   "amount": null,
   "amount_type": null,
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   "maintenance_type": "Muslim Women Act 1986 Section 3",
   "outcome": "granted",
   "notes": "Lifetime maintenance for Muslim women",
   "named": true,
   "amount_type_label": null,
   "amount_unit": "",
   "statute": "Muslim Women Act 1986",
   "statute_guide": "muslim-women-maintenance-india",
   "outcome_label": "Granted",
   "amount_today": null,
   "child_maintenance_today": null,
   "husband_income_today": null,
   "wife_income_today": null,
   "inflation_factor": 4.38,
   "inflation_material": false,
   "income_band": null,
   "income_band_label": null,
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   "duration_band_label": null,
   "decade": "2000s",
   "score": 9,
   "slug": "danial-latifi-v-union-of-india",
   "has_page": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Mamta Jaiswal v. Rajesh Jaiswal",
   "citation": "2000 (3) MPLJ 100",
   "year": 2000,
   "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
   "court_slug": "madhya-pradesh-high-court",
   "source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1728023/",
   "amount": 0,
   "amount_type": null,
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   "husband_income": null,
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   "husband_profession": "qualified idle",
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   "maintenance_type": "Section 24 HMA",
   "outcome": "denied",
   "notes": "Qualified but idle wife denied",
   "named": true,
   "amount_type_label": null,
   "amount_unit": "",
   "statute": "Section 24 HMA",
   "statute_guide": "hindu-marriage-act-alimony",
   "outcome_label": "Refused",
   "amount_today": null,
   "child_maintenance_today": null,
   "husband_income_today": null,
   "wife_income_today": null,
   "inflation_factor": 4.55,
   "inflation_material": false,
   "income_band": null,
   "income_band_label": null,
   "duration_band": null,
   "duration_band_label": null,
   "decade": "2000s",
   "score": 1,
   "slug": "mamta-jaiswal-v-rajesh-jaiswal",
   "has_page": true,
   "bench": "Civil Revision No. 1290 of 1999, decided 24 March 2000",
   "held": "A spouse who is qualified and capable of earning, but chooses to remain idle, cannot expect the other spouse to fund that choice through interim maintenance. The court put the question directly: should a spouse with the capacity to earn who sits idle be permitted to saddle the other with their expenditure, or to draw pendente lite alimony at a higher rate.",
   "facts": "Mamta Jaiswal held an MSc, an MC and an MEd, and had been working at a college of education. Her husband petitioned for divorce on the ground of cruelty, and the argument turned to maintenance while that case ran.",
   "why_it_matters": "It is the case husbands cite most often, and it is regularly overstated. It does not say a qualified wife gets nothing. It says a qualified spouse who is deliberately idle should not be rewarded for it, and it was decided about interim maintenance under Section 24, not permanent alimony. Twenty years later Rajnesh v. Neha put the same idea into a wider frame: whether the applicant is qualified is one factor of nine, and it sits next to whether she gave up work for the family.",
   "counterpoint": "Read it alongside Chaturbhuj v. Sita Bai (2008) and Sunita Kachwaha v. Anil Kachwaha (2014), where earning or qualified wives were still held entitled because their income did not sustain the standard of living of the marriage.",
   "researched": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Jasbir Kaur Sehgal v. District Judge Dehradun",
   "citation": "(1997) 7 SCC 7",
   "year": 1997,
   "court": "Supreme Court of India",
   "court_slug": "supreme-court",
   "source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/796258/",
   "amount": 5000,
   "amount_type": "monthly",
   "child_maintenance": null,
   "reason": null,
   "duration": 33,
   "children": 4,
   "husband_income": null,
   "wife_income": null,
   "husband_profession": "Retired Lt. Colonel",
   "wife_profession": null,
   "maintenance_type": "Section 24 HMA",
   "outcome": "granted",
   "notes": "1/3rd Family Resource Cake principle",
   "named": true,
   "amount_type_label": "Monthly",
   "amount_unit": "a month",
   "statute": "Section 24 HMA",
   "statute_guide": "hindu-marriage-act-alimony",
   "outcome_label": "Granted",
   "amount_today": 28018,
   "child_maintenance_today": null,
   "husband_income_today": null,
   "wife_income_today": null,
   "inflation_factor": 5.6,
   "inflation_material": true,
   "income_band": null,
   "income_band_label": null,
   "duration_band": "over-15-years",
   "duration_band_label": "over 15 years",
   "decade": "1990s",
   "score": 12,
   "slug": "jasbir-kaur-sehgal-v-district-judge-dehradun",
   "has_page": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Chand Dhawan v. Jawaharlal Dhawan",
   "citation": "(1993) 3 SCC 406",
   "year": 1993,
   "court": "Supreme Court of India",
   "court_slug": "supreme-court",
   "source_url": null,
   "amount": null,
   "amount_type": null,
   "child_maintenance": null,
   "reason": null,
   "duration": null,
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   "husband_income": null,
   "wife_income": null,
   "husband_profession": null,
   "wife_profession": null,
   "maintenance_type": "Section 25 HMA vs HAMA Section 18",
   "outcome": "granted",
   "notes": null,
   "named": true,
   "amount_type_label": null,
   "amount_unit": "",
   "statute": "Section 25 HMA",
   "statute_guide": "hindu-marriage-act-alimony",
   "outcome_label": "Granted",
   "amount_today": null,
   "child_maintenance_today": null,
   "husband_income_today": null,
   "wife_income_today": null,
   "inflation_factor": 7.95,
   "inflation_material": false,
   "income_band": null,
   "income_band_label": null,
   "duration_band": null,
   "duration_band_label": null,
   "decade": "1990s",
   "score": 6,
   "slug": "chand-dhawan-v-jawaharlal-dhawan",
   "has_page": false
  },
  {
   "name": "Shah Bano (Mohd. Ahmed Khan v. Shah Bano Begum)",
   "citation": "AIR 1985 SC 945",
   "year": 1985,
   "court": "Supreme Court of India",
   "court_slug": "supreme-court",
   "source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/823221/",
   "amount": 179,
   "amount_type": "monthly",
   "child_maintenance": null,
   "reason": "Talaq",
   "duration": 43,
   "children": 5,
   "husband_income": null,
   "wife_income": null,
   "husband_profession": null,
   "wife_profession": null,
   "maintenance_type": "Section 125 CrPC",
   "outcome": "granted",
   "notes": "Muslim divorced women's right to maintenance",
   "named": true,
   "amount_type_label": "Monthly",
   "amount_unit": "a month",
   "statute": "Section 125 CrPC",
   "statute_guide": "section-125-crpc-maintenance",
   "outcome_label": "Granted",
   "amount_today": 2909,
   "child_maintenance_today": null,
   "husband_income_today": null,
   "wife_income_today": null,
   "inflation_factor": 16.25,
   "inflation_material": true,
   "income_band": null,
   "income_band_label": null,
   "duration_band": "over-15-years",
   "duration_band_label": "over 15 years",
   "decade": "1980s",
   "score": 15,
   "slug": "shah-bano",
   "has_page": true,
   "held": "Section 125 of the Criminal Procedure Code applies to all citizens regardless of religion, so a divorced Muslim woman may claim maintenance under it. The award itself was Rs 179.20 a month.",
   "why_it_matters": "It is the most politically consequential maintenance judgement in Indian history. Parliament responded with the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act 1986, which was widely read as reversing it.",
   "counterpoint": "The reversal did not hold. Danial Latifi v. Union of India (2001) read the 1986 Act as requiring provision for the woman's whole life to be arranged during iddat, and in Mohd. Abdul Samad v. State of Telangana (2024) the Supreme Court confirmed that Section 125 remains available to a divorced Muslim woman. Forty years on, Shah Bano is effectively good law again.",
   "researched": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Bhagwan Dutt v. Kamla Devi",
   "citation": "(1975) 2 SCC 386",
   "year": 1975,
   "court": "Supreme Court of India",
   "court_slug": "supreme-court",
   "source_url": null,
   "amount": null,
   "amount_type": null,
   "child_maintenance": null,
   "reason": null,
   "duration": null,
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   "husband_income": null,
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   "husband_profession": null,
   "wife_profession": null,
   "maintenance_type": "Section 125 CrPC",
   "outcome": "granted",
   "notes": "Standard neither luxurious nor penurious",
   "named": true,
   "amount_type_label": null,
   "amount_unit": "",
   "statute": "Section 125 CrPC",
   "statute_guide": "section-125-crpc-maintenance",
   "outcome_label": "Granted",
   "amount_today": null,
   "child_maintenance_today": null,
   "husband_income_today": null,
   "wife_income_today": null,
   "inflation_factor": 30.79,
   "inflation_material": false,
   "income_band": null,
   "income_band_label": null,
   "duration_band": null,
   "duration_band_label": null,
   "decade": "1970s",
   "score": 7,
   "slug": "bhagwan-dutt-v-kamla-devi",
   "has_page": true
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  {
   "name": "Dr. Kulbhushan Kumar v. Raj Kumari",
   "citation": "(1970) 3 SCC 129",
   "year": 1970,
   "court": "Supreme Court of India",
   "court_slug": "supreme-court",
   "source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1670667/",
   "amount": 250,
   "amount_type": "monthly",
   "child_maintenance": 150,
   "reason": null,
   "duration": 25,
   "children": 1,
   "husband_income": null,
   "wife_income": null,
   "husband_profession": "Reader in medicine",
   "wife_profession": null,
   "maintenance_type": "Section 23(2) HAMA",
   "outcome": "granted",
   "notes": "Original 25% rule",
   "named": true,
   "amount_type_label": "Monthly",
   "amount_unit": "a month",
   "statute": "HAMA Section 18",
   "statute_guide": "hindu-marriage-act-alimony",
   "outcome_label": "Granted",
   "amount_today": 13430,
   "child_maintenance_today": 8058,
   "husband_income_today": null,
   "wife_income_today": null,
   "inflation_factor": 53.72,
   "inflation_material": true,
   "income_band": null,
   "income_band_label": null,
   "duration_band": "over-15-years",
   "duration_band_label": "over 15 years",
   "decade": "1970s",
   "score": 12,
   "slug": "dr-kulbhushan-kumar-v-raj-kumari",
   "has_page": true,
   "held": "Maintenance was fixed at roughly 25 percent of the husband's income, with a separate sum for the child.",
   "why_it_matters": "This is the origin of the proportion every later judgement cites. Kalyan Dey Chowdhury (2017) rests on it, and so does most of what a magistrate will assume in 2026.",
   "counterpoint": "The figures look almost comic at face value: Rs 250 a month for the wife and Rs 150 for the child. Restated in today's money that is roughly Rs 13,400 and Rs 8,100 a month. Read flat, the case is routinely dismissed as ancient and irrelevant. Read properly, it is neither.",
   "researched": true
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  {
   "name": "Narender v. Minakshi",
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   "year": null,
   "court": null,
   "court_slug": "other",
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   "husband_income": null,
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   "outcome": "Section 24/25 HMA",
   "notes": "denied",
   "named": true,
   "amount_type_label": null,
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   "statute": "Sections 24 and 25 HMA",
   "statute_guide": "hindu-marriage-act-alimony",
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