Allahabad High Court news: The Allahabad High Court recently upheld an order directing a husband to pay Rs 4,000 per month as interim maintenance to his wife, observing that a man is bound to maintain his wife and children after marriage and that those who believe they cannot maintain, “ought not to get married in the first place.”

A division bench of Justices Atul Sreedharan and Vivek Saran dismissed an appeal challenging a family court order granting maintenance pending their matrimonial dispute case.

“Such of those who feel that they cannot maintain a wife and children if the marriage goes sour, ought not to get married in the first place at all, but having done so, they cannot fall back on their poor financial condition to escape the responsibility of maintaining their wife during the course of the trial,” the Allahabad High Court said in its order passed on April 7.