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2025 Supreme(Ker) 2953

IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM
DEVAN RAMACHANDRAN, M.B.SNEHALATHA
Linu J. Varghese, S/o. A.J. Varghese – Appellant
Versus
Aacquiline Linu Varghese, D/o. Linu J. Varghese – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the Appellant : Smt. Swapna Vijayan, Sri. K.V. Anil Kumar, Smt. Radhika S. Anil, Smt. K. Latha, Shri. Jomton F. Payankan, Smt. Gayathri Narendranath.
For the Respondents: Shri. M.P. Ramnath, Shri. P. Rajesh (Kottakkal), Sri. K.J. Sebastian, Sei. M. Varghese Varghese, Smt. Uma R. Kamath, Smt. S. Sandhya, Shri. Bepin Paul, Sri. Shalu Varghese, Sri. S. Deepak, Sri. Antony Tharian.

Table of Content
1. grounds for maintenance and marriage expenses (Para 1 , 2 , 3 , 4)
2. appellant's financial capacity challenged; claims of incapacity (Para 5 , 6 , 10 , 11)
3. minor's entitlement to maintenance before petition (Para 7 , 12)
4. evidence evaluation process in family court (Para 8 , 9)
5. consideration of inheritance and its implications (Para 13 , 14)
6. court's reasoning on maintenance and marriage expense amounts (Para 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22)
7. modification of family court's orders and conclusions (Para 23)

JUDGMENT :

The appellant is the father of the respondent and he assails the judgment of the learned Family Court, Kollam, in OP (Others) No.1477/2017 dated 30.08.2022.

3. The respondent was only about 13 years old at the time when the Original Petition was filed and we are told that she is today a woman of 21 years in age.

5. Smt.K.Latha – appearing for the appellant, argued that the learned Family Court has fixed the afore figures without taking into account the factum of her client suffering from impecuniousness because, his monthly income from a daily wage employment he has with the Fisheries is only to a sum of Rs.10,000/- per month, as evident from

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