"By joint reading of Section l7-A and l2-A of the West
palCstan Family Courts Act 1964 (hereinafter to be
referred as the Act), what comes out is that when the
Family Court was made competent to pass an interim
order for payment of maintenance, it was at the same
time. made incumbent for the same Court to dispose of
the case pending before it within a period of six months
from the date of institution, meaning thereby, that the
order passed under section l7-A of the Act for payment
of intelim maintenance would, at the most, be effective
for a period of six months which time has been allocated
by virtue ofSection l2-A ofthe Act for final disposal ofa
lis pending before a Judge Family Court and, when the
rn"ii.o- age of an interim order passed under section
l7-A of the Act expires, the proceedings, if continued
before the Family Court, the same would be considered
violative to the provisions of Section l2-A of the Act and
this Court by virtue of proviso attached to Section l2-A of the Act has been made competent to take notice of
pendency of a family suit beyond the period of six months
and to pass any direction as deem fit."
PLD 2013 Lahore 64
Used In Judgment of:
Lahore High Court
WP- Family Law
2835-11
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