N P Ravish v. Smt K B Preethi
Case brief
What is this about?
Maintenance enhancement — Section 127 Cr.P.C. application before Family Court, Tumakuru; revision under Section 19(4) Family Courts Act dismissed by High Court of Karnataka; enhanced maintenance of Rs.15,000/- per month to wife and Rs.10,000/- per month to son upheld as neither excessive nor exorbitant; husband's means assessed as licenced surveyor with 12-13 monthly survey works and family ownership of 14 acres coconut/arecanut/mango garden; wife's parents' property and son's decreed partition suit (final decree stayed, no income shown) held irrelevant; maintenance to son ceased on his attaining majority; original maintenance Rs.3,000/- each from order dated 28.03.2016 in Criminal Misc. No.508/2009.
What did the court decide?
Taking into consideration the revision petitioner's financial status (admittedly a licenced surveyor carrying out 12 to 13 survey works monthly, with his family owning 14 acres of coconut, arecanut and mango garden), his liability to maintain the respondents, and the absence of convincing evidence that respondent No.1 can maintain herself and the child, the maintenance fixed by the Family Court stands justified.