The Bombay High Court has said that a wife who is financially independent cannot claim maintenance from her estranged husband.

The court said, while claiming maintenance the wife has to prove that she does not have any permanent source of income to maintain herself.

A division bench of Justices VK Tahilramani and PN Deshmukh was hearing a petition filed by a woman challenging an October 2012 order passed by a family court refusing to direct her 65-year-old estranged husband to pay her the sum of 15,000 rupees per month.