DR. AMBEDKAR AND THE HINDU CODE BILL 189
PART VIII.—MAINTENANCE
125. Maintenance explained. —In this Part, the expression “maintenance” includes—
Part III-A, sec. 3. page 2.
(i) in all cases, provision for food, clothing, residence, education and medical attendance and treatment; and
(ii) in the case of an unmarried daughter, also the reasonable expenses of, mid incident to, her marriage.
Personal liability to maintain members of family
126. Maintenance of wife. —(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, a Hindu wife, whether married before or after the commencement of this Code, shall be entitled to be maintained by her husband during his life-time and after his death, by his father.
Part IV, sec. 26.
page 19 and 20.
(2) A Hindu wife may claim maintenance from her husband only if and while she lives with him:
Provided that she shall be entitled to live separately from him without forfeiting her claim to maintenance—
(a) if he is suffering from a loathsome disease ;
(b) if he keeps a concubine in the same house in which his wife is living;
(c) if he has been guilty of such cruelty as to render it unsafe or undesirable for her to live with him;
(d) if he is guilty of desertion, that is to say, of abandoning her without just cause and without her consent or against her wish;
(e) if he has ceased to be a Hindu by conversion to another religion;
(f) if there is any other cause justifying her living separately.
(3) A Hindu wife shall not be entitled to separate residence and maintenance from her husband if she is unchaste or ceases to be a Hindu by conversion to another religion.
(149)
127. Maintenance of widowed daughter-in-law. —The obligation of a father-in-law to maintain his widowed daughterin-law under section 126 only extends in so far as he has the means to do so and the widowed daughter-in-law is unable to maintain herself out of her own property or to obtain maintenance from her husband’s estate or from her son, if any, or his estate. Any such obligation shall cease on her remarriage.
(150)
Part III-A, sec. 8, page 13.