Will Single Act Of Unchastity Disentitle Wife From Claiming Maintenance? Kerala HC Asks Family Court To Reconsider Wife's Plea [Read Order]

The Kerala High Court, in a recent order, took note of a dictum laid down in a 1999 judgment that a single act of unchastity or a few lapses of virtue will not disentitle a wife from claiming maintenance from her husband under Sec.125 of the Criminal Procedure Code. Justice Alexander Thomas set aside the order of a family court which had dismissed the plea of a woman seeking...