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Spousal Maintenance
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The Family Law and Divorce Law Blog
When Pendente Lite Means Exactly That: The Full Bench Ends a Post-Divorce Maintenance Dispute in KIV v CJV (A151/2025) [2026] ZAFSHC 465 (15 October 2026).
This case concerns a divorced husband who asked the Free State High Court to declare that his duty to pay his former wife R25 000 per month in spousal maintenance…
Missouri Lawyers Media
Domestic Relations-Spousal Maintenance-Reduction of Obligation
By Kallie Cox
Listen to this article Appellant appealed the trial court’s order that reduced respondent’s spousal maintenance application from $10,200 to $1,500 per month. Respondent had moved to modify or terminate maintenance,…
MHi Attorneys News
A Guide to Spousal Maintenance after Divorce
By Client-admin
Divorce often raises many questions about what life will look like after the marriage has ended. One of the most significant concerns is financial security, particularly where one spouse has…
Law Web
Delhi HC: The object of Section 24 of HMA is to avoid vagrancy but it is not meant to equalize the income of the wife with that of the husband
By Law Web
It is settled that object of Section 24 of HMA is to avoid vagrancy but it is not meant to equalize the income of the wife with that of the…
Law Web
Delhi HC: Whether wife is entitled to get maintenance if her expenses are more than her recurring income?
By Law Web
The appellant has relied upon her monthly expenditure, which according to her affidavit is approximately Rs. 1,16,150/-, apart from litigation expenses. The mere assertion of an expenditure figure, however, cannot…
Slaw
Wednesday: What’s Hot on CanLII? – September 2026
Each month, we tell you which five English-language cases and French-language cases have been the most viewed* on CanLII in the previous month and we give you a small sense…
The Family Law and Divorce Law Blog
No Right, Only a Discretion: Rehabilitative Maintenance, Earning Capacity and the Clean Break in H.L.B v J.B (6071/2021) [2026] ZAWCHC 561 (23 September 2026).
The Facts: A Long Marriage, a R9.1 Million Settlement and a Maintenance Claim with No TenderThe parties in H.L.B v J.B were married on 22 August 1998, out of community…
Hawley, Kaufman & Kautzer, S.C. Blog
Modifying Spousal Support in Wisconsin: Income Changes & Cohabitation
By Hawley, Kaufman & Kautzer, S.C. Staff
What you need to know when your ex files to change your spousal support (maintenance) order. You’ve been served. Just a few years after the divorce, your ex Dan has…
Legal Bites
Husband Cannot Stop Wife From Visiting Parents or Force Her to Look After In-Laws: Karnataka HC
Marriage may create a family, but it does not create a chain of command. The Karnataka High Court has made this distinction emphatically while dealing with a husband’s grievance that…
Collective Family Law Group Blog
How Does Spousal MaintenanceAffect My Final Property Settlement?
Working out whether you’re entitled to spousal maintenance, a property settlement, or both, can feel like trying to solve two puzzles that keep changing shape depending on how you look…