Buy Maintenance Right For Women Reconciling Diversity in Personal Laws | Law Books , our publication, New Arrivals, A Social Legal Perspective

About The Book

"Maintenance Right for Women: Reconciling Diversity in Personal Laws" by Dr. Debasree Debnath is a significant contribution as it provides an in-depth understanding of maintenance right of women provided under multiple personal laws in India. This book explores the status of women and maintenance laws from the shastric, historical perspective and jurisprudential aspects in relation to the modern maintenance law. It also depicts how the modern and post-independence maintenance laws have developed with the enactment of statutory laws. The author in this book penned down a comprehensive understanding about how does the religious and cultural practices influence the provision of maintenance for women.This book includes the issues and challenges women face while claiming the maintenance from her husband. In the contemporary era, the maintenance right of women is not only limited to unmarried daughter, wife and widow, but it also includes the live-in partners. Further, this book covers such aspects of maintenance law with recent judicial pronouncements and identifies the loopholes and challenges faced by the courts while implementing the maintenance law.This book also elaborates on the concept of Uniform Civil Code (UCC) and highlights the issue whether the UCC can work as an alternative for effective implementation of the maintenance law for women. This book will help the law students, academicians, researchers, legal professionals and any individual in the society who wish to understand the dimensions of maintenance law in India and the procedural challenges while implementing the maintenance order.