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There is nothing wrong in a woman expecting to maintain the same lifestyle in the society in which she lived with her estranged husband, the Bombay high court said, and in a partial relief to a man from a royal family, ordered him to deposit 75% of the Rs11-crore permanent alimony. A division bench of Justice Naresh Patil and Justice Prakash Naik asked Ranjeet Nabha to deposit with the high court registry within three months 75% of the permanent alimony awarded by the Bandra family court — Rs6 crore for his former wife Udita and Rs5 crore for their minor daughter. The estranged couple had tied the knot in March 1995 at Dadri in Uttar Pradesh, and stayed in New York till 2006. They returned to Mumbai where Udita approached the family court seeking dissolution of marriage on the ground of objectionable conduct and behaviour of her husband. In September 2015, the Bandra court dissolved the marriage and directed Nabha to pay Rs11 crore as permanent alimony to Udita and their daughter. H...

Though a woman may be unwilling to live with her husband and desert him, that does not disqualify her from getting maintenance from her husband, Madras High Court ruled today. "If the wife does not remarry and the person has obtained divorce on the ground of desertion and unwillingness to live with him, then the wife is entitled to alimony," Justice S Nagamuthu said.       The court stated this on an appeal by an astrologer who challenged a lower court order directing him to pay  R s.  2,000 per month as alimony to his divorced wife, though he did so on the ground of desertion.       The judge said that as per CrPc, the wife would not be entitled to receive allowance from her husband if she was living in adultery or without any sufficient reason she refused to live with her husband or if they were living seperately by mutual consent.       Besides, a divorcee and one who had obtained divorce from her husband but ha...