A Bengaluru court holds LinkedIn and Facebook profiles cannot by themselves establish a woman can maintain herself and her child, Bar & Bench reports.
A Bengaluru court has held that photographs and social media profiles, including LinkedIn and Facebook, cannot by themselves establish that a woman has sufficient income to maintain herself and her child and consequently disentitle her from maintenance, Bar & Bench reported on 03 Nov 2026.
The court emphasised that the possibility of employment is different from actual financial independence, particularly for a woman responsible for raising a minor child, according to Bar & Bench.
Separately, LiveLaw reported on 12 Aug 2026 that the Punjab and Haryana High Court upheld a maintenance award under Section 125 CrPC to a woman whose earlier marriage was alleged to be subsisting on the date of her marriage to the petitioner-husband. The High Court held that such an objection, by itself, cannot defeat a claim for maintenance, and dismissed the second husband's criminal revision. The report is cited as 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 272.
