ORDER :

(P. VELMURUGAN, J.)

Heard the learned counsel on either side and perused the materials available on record.

2. Both the revisions arise from the order passed by the learned 1st Additional Family Judge, Chennai, in a maintenance case in M.C. No. 107 of 2022. Hence, they are taken up together for consideration and disposed of by way of this common order. Crl.R.C.No.2273 of 2024 has been preferred by the husband, challenging the order directing him to pay maintenance to the wife and minor children. Crl.R.C.No.1429 of 2024 has been filed by the wife and children seeking enhancement of the maintenance awarded.

3. For the sake of convenience, the husband will hereinafter be referred to as the "petitioner," and the wife and children will be referred to as the "respondents."

4. The marriage between the husband and the wife was solemnized on 18.11.2004. Out of their wedlock, two children, namely the second and third respondents, were born. As disputes had arisen between the parties, the wife left the matrimonial home The wife filed a petition seeking maintenance for herself and the children, contending that she was unable to maintain herself and the children and that the husband, being f