Maintenance of Wife Under Muslim Law in Bangladesh and India

Abstract

This article discusses and analyzes the introducing of maintenance under Muslim law which refers the right to maintenance of a wife, provides mechanism to recover maintenance, focus the laws regarding maintenance and its applicability in Bangladesh and India. The principle of maintenance includes the basic requirement of a person for survival. Maintenance is the sum which a husband is under a commitment to make to his wife either amid the subsistence of the marriage or upon detachment or separation, in specific situations. Muslim law binds the husband to give proper maintenance to his wife. In Bangladesh and India there are some provisions of law relating to maintenance which has not its actual applicability in the court of both countries, for this reason many maintenance seeker women get deprive from their rights. The aim of this research is to compare the laws relating to maintenance in Bangladesh and India and find out the problems which arises from disputes of maintenance in the court of law in Bangladesh and India and give some recommendation to resolve the problems.