Supreme Court · 1970 INSC 225 · Decided 20 October 1970
Kulbhushan Kumar v. Raj Kumari & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1970 INSC 225 · [1971] 2 S.C.R. 672
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2564/1966
- Decided
- 20 October 1970
- Bench
- G.K. MITTER, A.N. RAY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
KUMAR v. RAJ KUMAR! & ANR. Oc,tnber ?.0, 1970 [G. K. MITTER AND A. N. RAY, JJ.J !findu Adoptions and Maintenance Act (78 of 1956), s. 23(2)­ Amounts received by wife monthly from faiher-lf could be taken into account in determining maintenance-Husband's 'free income', how deter­ and there was complete estrangement between them. A daughter was born to them in-August 1946. In 1951, the respondent sent a registered letter claiming maintenance, for herself and the daughter, and in 1954, she filed the suit for maintenance. The High Court in appeal, fixed the maintenance
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