Wife Deserting Husband Entitled To Maintenance After Divorce: SC [Read Order]

The apex court upholds HC order to give maintenance with effect from the date of divorce decree.The Supreme Court, in Manoj Kumar vs Champa Devi, has upheld a Himachal Pradesh High Court order directing a husband to grant maintenance to his deserter wife, whom he had divorced, from the date when the divorce was decreed.The husband had contended before the high court that he, having obtained...