Chhattisgarh High Court Directs Father To Provide Maintenance And Marriage Expenses to Unmarried Daughter

The Chhattisgarh High Court held that a father is legally and morally obliged to provide maintenance and marriage expenses to his unmarried adult daughter. 

The Division Bench dismissed an appeal against a Family Court order directing the father, a government teacher earning ₹44,642/month, to pay ₹2,500 per month as maintenance and ₹5,00,000 towards marriage expenses. 

Relying on Sections 3(b)(ii) and 20(3) of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, the Court reaffirmed that an unmarried daughter unable to maintain herself has an absolute right to maintenance and financial support for marriage, enforceable against her father.

[Raj Kumar Sonwani v. Kumari Purnima]