India, Dec. 29 -- The Delhi high court has ruled that a father cannot be absolved of maintaining his minor children merely because the mother earns more, underlining that the income of one parent does not absolve the other from their legal and moral obligations.

A bench of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma on Saturday held that the obligation to maintain minor children is not only a statutory duty but also a legal, moral, and social responsibility of both parents. "The earning capacity of the working parent, whether husband or wife, in whose custody the minor children are, does not erase or diminish that parent's responsibility as a caregiver, who continues to bear the burden of shouldering the dual responsibility of earning as well as being ...