JUDGMENT

Shaffique, J.—The appeal has been filed by the daughters of the respondents challenging judgment dated 31/3/2010 in OP No.245/2008 of the Family Court, Thiruvananthapuram. The appellants filed the Original Petition seeking past and future maintenance, educational expenses for the 2nd petitioner and marriage expenses for the first petitioner and for other incidental reliefs. The Family Court partly decreed the petition directing the 1st respondent to pay maintenance to the 2nd petitioner at the rate of Rs.5,000/- per month from 3/3/2008 until she obtains employment or any other independent source of income or till she gets married, whichever is earlier. Other claims made by the petitioners were dismissed.

2. The short facts of the case are as under. Petitioners/appellants are the daughters of the first and second respondent. The marriage between the respondents were dissolved by mutual consent as per order in OP No.823/2006. According to the petitioners, after divorce, 1st respondent contracted a second marriage and thereafter he did not care to maintain the petitioners. He is a person having financial capacity to meet their expenditure and accordingly 1st petitioner sought