Need maintenance from your husband for yourself or your children? See what courts decided in cases like yours
Our Legal AI has read the orders of the courts in Delhi and Gurugram. Tell it your situation and it finds the cases closest to yours.
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- What is the husband's real income, and is he hiding it?
- Does the wife have her own income, or can she earn?
- Is she entitled even though she is educated or worked earlier?
- How much is enough for the wife and the children?
- The right to stay in the shared home
- Maintenance already given in another case
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What our Legal AI will ask you
- Are you still married? Are there children?
- What does your husband do and earn?
- Do you earn?
- Is a case already filed?
Our Legal AI puts together the decided cases closest to yours: what each wife asked for, what was ordered, how long it took, and what made the difference.
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How much maintenance will the court give?
There's no fixed amount. Courts look at the husband's real income, the wife's own income and the children's needs. Both sides file affidavits of their income and assets.
I am educated and worked before. Can I still get maintenance?
Courts have granted it where the wife was not actually earning. Earning capacity alone hasn't always been enough to deny it.
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Updated 30 October 2026. What courts look at comes from the orders our Legal AI has read.