High Court relief for divorced woman seeking maintenance in Karnataka
The Hindu
HC says Muslim man who gave talaq and remarried cannot shirk responsibility
Getting married another time and having children from that marriage cannot be a reason for a Muslim man to resist the execution of maintenance decree obtained by his former wife from a court of law, said the High Court of Karnataka on Tuesday.
Giving relief to a divorced woman who had fought a legal battle on maintenance for two decades, the court said “a Muslim man hurriedly contracting another marriage after pronouncing talaq upon his first wife cannot be heard to say he has to maintain the new spouse and child and thus cannot discharge the maintenance decree”.
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