2. Maintenance Under Hindu Law
❖According to Manu
• “The aged mother and father, the chaste wife and an infant child must be
maintained even by doing a hundred misdeeds.”
• It is to be pointed out that the liability of a Hindu to maintain the members of
his family may be divided into classes i.e. moral and legal. So some persons
can claim to be maintained on moral grounds, others have legal right to be
maintained.
4. Types of Liability
• Personal liability
A Hindu is under a legal as well as religious obligation to maintain the following
persons, namely
• Wife
• Minor sons
• Unmarried daughters
• Aged parents
5. Types of Liability
• Liability dependant on possession of property
• The manager of a joint family is under legal obligation to maintain all male
members of the family, their wives and their children. On the death of any
one of the male members he is bound to maintain his widow and his children.
6. Types of Liability
• Liability dependant on possession of property
• An heir is legally bound to provide out of the estate which descend to him,
maintenance for those persons whom the late proprietor was legally and
morally bound to maintain. The reason is that the estate is inherited subject
to the obligation to provide for such maintenance.
7. Maintenance of the Wife
A husband is required to provide maintenance to his wife. Also, separate
residence if required.
• Swapon Kumar Gain case (2006)
• Shukla Rani Biswas case (2017)
