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Law Relating to Procedure for Providing Maintenance in India | Original Article

Vandita Chahar*, (Dr.) Babita Chugh, in Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education | Multidisciplinary Academic Research

ABSTRACT:

This article discusses different laws regarding the procedure for providing maintenance to women in India. This is a descriptive study based on secondary research. It studies the Section 488 (8) Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 that talks about maintenance. The paper discusses provisions of Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. It compares the former law with the present law. It studies the different scenarios of dissolution of marriage vis a vis right of maintenance to wife and children in different cases. The paper also explains the procedural aspect to obtain Maintenance, according to Section 125 of the Cr.PC,1973.