Faiza Tamby Chik J:

Parties have reached settlement and terms of settlement by consent are as in encl. (29). The remaining issues to be decided in the petition are:

(i) The issue of maintenance;

(ii) A claim of share from the petitioner's EPF contibutions;

(iii) The educational expenses of the children of the marriage.

The respondent wife in her cross petition has prayed, inter alia, for the following prayers which remain for the determination of this court, namely:

(a) that the petitioner husband shall pay the respondent wife the sum of RM2,000 a month as maintenance for the respondent wife, which maintenance shall be payable in advance on or before the 5th day of each month;

(b) that the petitioner husband shall pay the respondent wife arrears of maintenance for (i) aforesaid from May 2001;

(c) that the petitioner husband shall pay the respondent wife the sum of RM3,000 a month as maintenance for the said children of the marriage, which maintenance shall be payable in advance on or before the 5th day of each month until the said children shall have attained the age of 18 years;

(d) that the sums payable for maintenance under prayers (i) and (iii) shall be increased at th