Pronouncement of Talaq is not a pre-condition for the maintainability of the suit for recovery of dower.

22. I am also fortified in my opinion from the view taken by the Honourable High Court in its authoritative judgments cited as 2006 YLR 33 (Lahore) {Muhammad Azam versus Additional District Judge and others} and 2000 CLC 1384 (Lahore) {Dr. Sabira Sultana versus Maqsood Sulqari, Additional District and Sessions Judge, Rawalpindi and 2 others} where it is held that the dower whether prompt or deferred is an inalienable right of wife and after consummation, same would become vested right of a wife at any time. Pronouncement of Talaq is not a pre-condition for the maintainability of the suit for recovery of dower. 

Part of Judgment : 

IN THE LAHORE HIGH COURT MULTAN BENCH MULTAN

WP- Family Law
10265-14

2014 LHC 4091