An estranged wife has a right to seek amount of maintenance in the like status of her spouse; Rajasthan High Court enhances the quantum of maintenance
The object of maintenance proceeding would be that one party having no sufficient means to satisfy his/her daily needs and has no source of income to procure bread and other needs which are necessary to maintain one's life, if the same is to award after 10 years of the prayer then the very purpose would be frustrated and defeated.