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Friday, 29 March 2024 2.23 PM IST

Daughters have the right to marriage expenses, religion does not apply: High court 

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KOCHI: A division bench of the High Court comprising Justice Anil K Narendran and Justice PG Ajitkumar held that daughters have the right to receive marriage expenses from their father, irrespective of their religion. The judgment is on the petition filed by two daughters who are Pentecostal Christians complaining that the amount suggested by the Palakkad family court, to pay for marriage expenses, was too low. The daughters had approached the family court demanding Rs 45 lakh as marriage allowance from their estranged father, but the order was to pay Rs 7.50 lakh. The division bench ordered the father to pay Rs 15 lakh to the petitioners.

The Division Bench considered whether the petitioners belonging to the Christian sect were entitled to get marriage allowance from their father. An unmarried Hindu woman is entitled to a marriage grant from her father under the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act. In the 2011 Ismail case, the High Court had clarified that Muslim women also have this right. The division bench, agreeing with this order, clarified that daughters have the right to get marriage support from their father irrespective of their religion.

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