Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

Section - 127 - Alteration in allowance

Alteration in allowance.

127. [(1) On proof of a change in the circumstances of any person, receiving, under section 125 a monthly allowance for the maintenance or interim maintenance, or ordered under the same section to pay a monthly allowance for the maintenance, or interim maintenance, to his wife, child, father or mother, as the case may be, the Magistrate may make such alteration, as he thinks fit, in the allowance for the maintenance or the interim maintenance, as the case may be.]

(2) Where it appears to the Magistrate that, in consequence of any decision of a competent Civil Court, any order made under section 125 should be cancelled or varied, he shall cancel the order or, as the case may be, vary the same accordingly.

(3) Where any order has been made under section 125 in favour of a woman who has been divorced by , or has obtained a divorce from, her husband, the Magistrate shall, if he is satisfied that-

(a)-the woman has, after the date of such divorce, remarried, cancel such order as from the date of her remarriage;
(b)-the woman has been divorced by her husband and that she has received, whether before or after the date of the said order, the whole of the sum which, under any customary or personal law applicable to the parties, was pa .... To read the full section download the app from Google Play store
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