PLD 2023 Lahore 317
PLJ 2023 Lahore 323
Father is bound to pay reasonable maintenance allowance as well as marriage expenses of his daughter.
“….. 5. Financial support given by one person to another ...”
In Oxford Dictionary it has been defined as under:
“The money needed for somebody's living expenses; act of providing this money.”
Right of maintenance does not limit itself only to food, raiment and lodging but also entails all other necessary expenses for mental and physical wellbeing of recipient.
When a woman has attained puberty she needs help and assistance of her father to formally enter matrimony--Father must function as guardian on her behalf in such marriage to enable his daughter into contract of marriage--A father is not only bound to maintain his daughter by providing financial support for her food, clothes, lodging, education, health etc. till her marriage but also responsible to bear expenses incurred on her marriage according to his financial status.
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