Mary Joseph,J:

The common respondent in O.P.Nos.71/2005 and 673/2005 respectively has approached this court seeking to set aside the common orders passed by the Family Court, Ernakulam (for short 'the court below') in I.A.Nos.1544/2010 and 1545/2010 and I.A.Nos.1547/2010 and 1548/2010 in respective original petitions on 29.10.2010.

2. One among the orders under challenge was passed by the court below in the interlocutory applications numbered as I.A.No.1544/2010 seeking to set aside the ex parte decree passed on 8.7.2008 in O.P.No.71/2005 and I.A.No.1545/2010 seeking to condone the delay of 598 days occurred in filing the said application. The second order under challenge was passed by the court below in the interlocutory application numbered as I.A.No.1547/2010 seeking to set aside the ex parte decree passed on 8.7.2008 in O.P.No.673/2005 and I.A.No.1548/2010 seeking to condone the delay of 598 days occurred in filing the said application.

3. O.P.No.71 of 2005 was filed by the respondent herein as petitioner before the court below seeking a decree of maintenance under Section 18(2) of the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956. O.P.No.673 of 2005 was filed by the responde