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SC: Woman Deserting Husband Will Still Get Maintenance After Divorce - (07 Apr 2017)

Supreme Court by preferring social welfare to legal technicality has held that, even if, a woman is disentitled to maintenance from her husband during the period of separation after deserting him, she will be entitled to it after divorce if she is unable to sustain herself.

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