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separate maintenance

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Maintenance-effect on divorce

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alimony

payee's remarriage) tem·po·rary alimony : alimony pendente lite in this entry 2 : means of living, support, or maintenance [fathers and mothers owe to their illegitimate children "Louisiana Civil Code"] … nourish] 1 : an allowance made to one spouse by the other for support pending or after legal separation or divorce compare child support alimony in gross : lump sum alimony in this entry alimony pen·den·te li·te

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Husband and wife

wife's torts committed during covertures, and the aggrieved party was not limited in his remedy to the wife's separate estate, Earle v. Kingscote, (1900) 1 Ch 203, but the husband's liability ceased if, while the action was … the absence of her husband she commit the felony'even by his order'her covertures is no excuse. As to maintenance of the wife by the husband under the Poor Law, by 5 Geo. 1, c. 8, a husband

Judicial separation

and relief can also be obtained by a husband where the wife is an habitual drunkard (ibid.). Under Maintenance Acts the husband can be ordered to make weekly payments to his wife, which can be enforced by … Judicial separation, granted either to husband or wife on the ground of adultery, cruelty, rape, sodomy, bestiality, non-compliance with a

Alimony

her support, either during a matrimonial suit or at its termination, when she proves herself entitled to a separate maintenance, and the fact of a marriage is established. But she is not entitled to it if she elope

spousal support or maintenance

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legal separation

of spouses which does not involve a dissolution of the marriage but in which certain arrangements (as for maintenance and custody) are ordered by the court called also divorce a mensa et thoro judicial separation separation from … legal separation : a separation of spouses which does not involve a dissolution of the marriage but in which certain

separated

separated : being in a state of estrangement between spouses usually requiring the maintenance of separate residences and the

Mahr (dower)

is prompt or deferred is clearly not a contemplated quantification of a sum of money in lieu of maintenance upon divorce, Fuzlunbi v. K. Khader Vali, AIR 1980 SC 1730: (1980) 4 SCC 125: (1980) 3 SCR

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