01 Sep 2026 13:18 PM

Maintenance to Wife -- Wife Leaving Matrimonial Home Due to Ill-Treatment -- Wife entitled to maintenance where refusal to perform household duties and control by husband constitutes reasonable cause to leave

Bharatiya Nagarika Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, S.144 -- Maintenance to Wife -- Wife Leaving Matrimonial Home Due to Ill-Treatment -- Reasonable cause to leave the matrimonial home exists where the husband demands household work and care of his parents from the wife and restricts her movement without permission. Marriage does not confer a license to control, command or dominate the individuality and freedom of the other party. Household duties and care of parents must be shared voluntarily, and denial of maintenance cannot follow from the wife\'s refusal to comply with such demands.

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