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How is child maintenance amount decided, if both parents are doing job


15-Dec-2023 (In Divorce Law)
If both parents are working, how is child maintenance decided? Is it only on the basis of father's income or both parents?
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Answer #1
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if both the parents are working then the income and the expenditures of both the parents would be taken into account for deciding the child's maintenance. Both should share the responsibility according to their income..
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Answer #2
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Maintenance to child is fixed by court taking into consideration welfare of the child. First the court would consider that with whom such child is residing with; with father or mother. In case the child is residing with his mother, the court would ask father to furnish his income details and decides maintenance accordingly. The income of mother can be taken into consideration by court but it depends upon it’s discretion. The father is duty bound to maintain his child irrespective of the income of mother.
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