TV
Weeks after pulling up well-educated women, who are capable of earning for expecting husbands to pay maintenance, the Orissa High Court has now remarked that a well-qualified husband, who quit his job to avoid paying maintenance to wife, cannot be appreciated in a civilized society.
Single Bench of Justice Gourishankar Satapathy firmly stated that well-educated and qualified men should not be encouraged to sit idle and remain unemployed in order to deprive their wives of maintenance.
The Court’s Observation:
“Remaining unemployed is one thing and sitting idle having qualification and prospect to earn is other thing and if a husband being well qualified sufficient enough to earn sits idle only to shift the burden on the wife and expects ‘dole’ by remaining entangled in litigation should not only be deprecated, but also be discouraged in as much as law never helps indolent, so also idles and does not intend to create an army of self made lazy idles.”
“A person who is well qualified and was also in a job earlier, but remains idle by quitting the job without any logic only to shift or avoiding the responsibility of maintenance of the wife cannot be appreciated in a civilized society,” the Court further added.
