India, June 26 -- The Bombay high court has upheld a family court order directing a Dombivli resident to pay Rs.15,000 per month to his estranged wife towards maintenance during the pendency of their divorce petition. The single judge bench of justice Manjusha Deshpande upheld the August 2023 order passed by the family court at Bandra, noting that merely because the woman was earning, she could not be deprived of support from her husband to maintain the same standard of living that she was accustomed to in her marital home.

According to the petition filed by the 31-year-old Dombivli resident, the couple had married in November 2012 and their relations were strained as his wife threw tantrums and ill-treated him. In May 2015, his wife lef...