• COURTChattisgarh High Court
• TITLE/CORAM SMT.JAANKI YADAV AND ORS v. SHRI GORAKHNATH YADAV HMJ Goutam Bhaduri
  HMJ Sanjay S. Agrawal
  FAM No. 140 of 2016

The High Court while denying maintenance to a wife and daughter held that the law presumes in favour of marriage and is against concubinage. The High Court was hearing a wife's petition seeking monthly maintenance for herself and her minor daughter from a police officer with whom she had an intimate relationship, on the promise of marriage.