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SC: Objective of Granting Maintenance is to Ensure Dependant Spouse Not Reduced to Destitution - (09 Nov 2020)

FAMILY

Supreme Court has observed that the objective of granting interim / permanent alimony/maintenance is to ensure that the dependant spouse is not reduced to destitution or vagrancy on account of the failure of the marriage, and not as a punishment to the other spouse.

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