► I am govt employee with 60k salary n wife with no job n 1child .. she don't have any property on her name but her parents are rich ...we just lived 6 months together n she left for pregnancy n never come after 3yrs..too..now she has filed DV case.. I have 1bhk in pune under construction n at village 10 acre land on 5 people jointly named...how much interim may be decided..I know some say 25% to 33% ...I don't have any other income except job ..in personal she don't want divorce n just want maintenance with no divorce deadlock ...her demand in petition is 50k monthly plus 90Lk ots n said in it i have 1.5Lk salary..also said i have agri income of 25Lk which is not even 50k annual..how to get her to reasonable amount??..any possibility of settlement in Mediation or contested divorce will go on till 5 to 10 yrs??..
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Mar 07, 2026
Dear Client,
As per your query, there's no fixed legal rule that maintenance must be 25%-33% of the husband's income; rather, the court generally follows the principles laid down by the Supreme Court in the case of Rajnesh vs Neha (2020), which require both parties to disclose their true financial status through affidavits and supporting documents. Based on typical judicial practice, interim maintenance for a non-earning wife and one child in such circumstances may often fall in a reasonable range determined by the court according to financial capacity, rather than be demanded in the petition.
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