(1) On proof of a change in the circumstances of any person, receiving, under
section 144 a monthly allowance for the maintenance or interim maintenance, or ordered
under the same section to pay a monthly allowance for the maintenance, or interim
maintenance, to his wife, child, father or mother, as the case may be, the Magistrate may
make such alteration, as he thinks fit, in the allowance for the maintenance or the interim
maintenance, as the case may be.
(2) Where it appears to the Judicial Magistrate that in consequence of any decision of
a competent Civil Court, any order made under section 144 should be cancelled or varied, he
shall cancel the order or, as the case may be, vary the same accordingly.
(3) Where any order has been made under section 144 in favour of a woman who has
been divorced by, or has obtained a divorce from, her husband, the Judicial Magistrate
shall, if he is satisfied that\u2014
(a) the woman has, after the date of such divorce, remarried, cancel such order
as from the date of her remarriage;
(b) the woman has been divorced by her husband and that she has received,
whether before or after the date of the said order, the whole of the sum which, under
any customary or personal law applicable to the parties, was payable on such divorce,
cancel such order,\u2014
(i) in the case where such sum was paid before such order, from the date
on which such order was made;
(ii) in any other case, from the date of expiry of the period, if any, for
which maintenance has been actually paid by the husband to the woman;
(c) the woman has obtained a divorce from her husband and that she had
voluntarily surrendered her rights to maintenance or interim maintenance, as the case
may be, after her divorce, cancel the order from the date thereof.
(4) At the time of making any decree for the recovery of any maintenance or dowry by
any person, to whom a monthly allowance for the maintenance and interim maintenance or
any of them has been ordered to be paid under section 144, the Civil Court shall take into
account the sum which has been paid to, or recovered by, such person as monthly allowance
for the maintenance and interim maintenance or any of them, as the case may be, in pursuance
of the said order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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