Need a legal perspective. Why does an adulterer deserve alimony?

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      Providya8922
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        March 25, 2025 at 12:37 pm
        With the divorce and alimony news going on for Prasanna the co-founder of Rippling. From his tweets and the screenshots its pretty apparent that his wife did cheat on him. They have a 9 year old kid and have been married for 10 years and they have been sweethearts since college days at NIT.

        His wife is demanding 9 crores and 4.3 lakh/month alimony. Why does an adulterer deserve alimony?

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          March 25, 2025 at 12:46 pm
          Oh boy Iโ€™m tired of seeing this so much that I might just take the time to type an explanation

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            March 25, 2025 at 12:51 pm
            You want to outrage and not get any legal perspective.

            Adultery is grounds for divorce. Alimony is for maintenance and a share in the wealth generated during the partnership. Without being in the shoes of the couple, no one can tell the reasons for distancing and breakups and flings.

            In this specific case there are a bunch of tweets by a man. Legally they amount to nothing since the facts are to be proved in a court of law under the rules of evidence.

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                March 25, 2025 at 1:22 pm
                Not really want to outrage. It doesn’t concern me at all like you said. But have seen cases like these in the past as well in the news.

                >Alimony is for maintenance and a share in the wealth generated during the partnership

                But didn’t the partner consciously chose to disregard the partnership?

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                    March 25, 2025 at 1:57 pm
                    To answer your question, the partner chose to disregard the relationship – thats the moral answer.

                    The legal answer is, there is nothing like ‘disregarding’ relationship. There is separation, dispute, divorce.

                    Cheating is an immoral act – but thats not a legal issue. Laws *try* not to legislate people’s morality or immorality. And also because why someone cheats is a highly complex issue in some cases, and courts dont want to get into personal problems or the bedroom.

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                        March 25, 2025 at 2:23 pm
                        Law doesnt wanr to get into bedroom but can get into a mans pocket to leech him off his wealth

                        What a logic!

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                            March 25, 2025 at 3:33 pm
                            Exactly.

                            These kids keep jumping about “LAW” da dis “LAW” da that as if it’s created by GOD.

                            A country’s laws are whatever nonsense that are passed in Parliament by a bunch of illiterate, corrupt criminals.

                            Law is not justice, which is what people want

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                              March 26, 2025 at 4:16 am
                              The law says, the richer person will pay alimony. And when its the woman, she has to pay up.

                              When it doesnt happen, usually its some judge who can’t believe men need support because they are men, too strong, capable etc etc.

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                                March 26, 2025 at 4:31 am
                                The law also doesnโ€™t want to punish men for raping their wives. You are right. The law needs to get into the bedroom.

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                                    March 26, 2025 at 6:28 am
                                    Yes punish those husbands

                                    And instear or rewarding these #oes with alimony for cheating punish them

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                                  March 25, 2025 at 8:45 pm
                                  That’s not entirely true. The law continues to put men in prison for cheating. Cheating was deemed cruelty under 498a, and thus punishable when done by a man.

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                                  March 26, 2025 at 4:30 am
                                  The wife has also said he is a sexual predator. If true how do you blame her? You do actually just want to outrage.

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                                March 25, 2025 at 1:23 pm
                                Legality vs morality. There is your answerย 

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                                  March 25, 2025 at 1:32 pm
                                  Don’t form opinions on the basis of stupid gender wars on social media. Outsiders have no insight into what actually happened between couples.

                                  I see a lot of happy couples around me. There is so much concentrated effort going on social media to brew hatred between indian men and women.

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                                    March 25, 2025 at 1:52 pm
                                    cause he married someone and could keep them satisfied. its called cuck tax.

                                    real answer:

                                    Women are not property . don’t marry unless you are really sure you can live with their mistakes.

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                                        March 25, 2025 at 2:20 pm
                                        Are you for real ?

                                        People are supposed to overlook cheating in their marriage… What the hell …

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                                            March 25, 2025 at 2:28 pm
                                            again don’t marry just cause everyone marries. This is not 1990’s.

                                            Don’t marry and abandon.

                                            Honestly don’t marry or have children unless you can live with their mistakes.

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                                                March 25, 2025 at 2:37 pm
                                                You might have cuck fantasy, not everyone does…

                                                Or maybe it’s something personal that you are trying to justify here.

                                                Cheating in marriage is not a ‘mistake’ … It’s a crime against the marriage itself.

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                                                    March 25, 2025 at 2:51 pm
                                                    dude its not my fault he couldn’t fulfill her desires.

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                                                        March 25, 2025 at 2:54 pm
                                                        Or maybe she was a loose woman, nobody can fulfil their desires

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                                                            March 25, 2025 at 3:03 pm
                                                            lol true . anyway the cuck has to pay , cause he entered a marriage without understanding the woman or the law.

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                                                                March 25, 2025 at 8:20 pm
                                                                Bhai konse Nashe Karke aya hai?

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                                                                    March 26, 2025 at 10:18 am
                                                                    Sukhe hi hoge

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                                                      March 25, 2025 at 2:02 pm
                                                      Legally you can make an argument for not granting alimony if the women is earning, also by law it has to be paid to the spouse (not man or woman specifically) who needs support.

                                                      Practically there are many factors that skew the outcome towards women getting alimony even when not required.

                                                      Many judges instead of relying on legal conditions, follow the traditional orthodox mindset that every woman is weak and helpless and needs money from husband. This makes it easier for the lawyers to get money for the woman. There are exceptions when it comes to judges.

                                                      Lawyers sometimes even those representing the men would put up less of a fight when it comes to maintenance and alimony. I don’t know what is the reason but the observable difference in the attitude of some lawyers suggest everyone takes a cut.

                                                      If there is no alimony there is no fund from which those people who take a cut can extract their pound of flesh. They would also extract from woman if possible, but it is easier for all to extract from the man.

                                                      Ideally lawyers are not supposed to take a cut from the payouts, but corruption is a lot more than literacy in the country so that would not be a surprise.

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                                                          March 25, 2025 at 3:17 pm
                                                          > I don’t know what is the reason but the observable difference in the attitude of some lawyers suggest everyone takes a cut.

                                                          Lawyer gets paid his fees irrespective of whether the client pays โ‚น1 or โ‚น10,00,000.

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                                                              March 25, 2025 at 4:04 pm
                                                              Some are known to take a cut from the amount awarded even though they are not supposed to take a percentage.

                                                              Some even ask for a percentage from real estate deals.

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                                                                March 26, 2025 at 2:44 am
                                                                Obviously he gets his fees but he also gets a cut

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                                                                March 26, 2025 at 3:41 am
                                                                You forgot to add one important part. Judges benefit when men pay alimony. They get a cut.

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                                                                  March 26, 2025 at 6:20 am
                                                                  >corruption is a lot more than literacy in the country
                                                                  ๐Ÿ’ฏ

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                                                                  March 25, 2025 at 4:24 pm
                                                                  Here’s the perspective; legality doesn’t abide by morality. A sin can only be a crime if your kings want it to be.

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                                                                      March 26, 2025 at 3:41 am
                                                                      Exactly.

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                                                                      March 25, 2025 at 6:19 pm
                                                                      Donโ€™t marry dude, you will be much better off without it.

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                                                                          March 26, 2025 at 4:32 am
                                                                          And probably the woman he would have married will also be married to someone who is not basis his entire identity on a couple of tweets.

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                                                                          March 25, 2025 at 11:55 pm
                                                                          The law makes the argument that alimony needs to be paid to the spouse (in India, itโ€™s more often than not, the wife) because he/she helped contribute to the marriage and assets that were built during the course of the marriage. And hence, equitable division in the form of marriage is necessary since cheating in a marriage is not illegal anymore.

                                                                          Personally, I feel thatโ€™s a crock of shit. Itโ€™s very rare that a woman in India will marry a man that has less assets than her. And Iโ€™m honestly not sure what modern women bring to the table in the marriage. All they do is whine and whine. Almost every man feels this way. Do you really think MacKenzie Bezos deserved $32 billion of alimony from Jeff Bezos. She is not qualified to even take up the post of a CEO and the CEO of Amazon, Andy Jassy, one of the smartest people alive takes home only $30 million and he runs a trillion dollar company. What does MacKenzie Bezos do again?

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                                                                              March 26, 2025 at 6:30 am
                                                                              The patriarchy myth is the biggest crock of shit that women came up with to justify their agenda of creating social justice movemnt to make the system favourable to them

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                                                                                  March 26, 2025 at 10:14 am
                                                                                  > make the system favourable to them

                                                                                  of course we want it to be favourable to us, I don’t want to be killed by my husband anally fisting me without my consent.

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                                                                                March 26, 2025 at 4:25 am
                                                                                Because milords says so ๐Ÿ’ธ๐Ÿ’ธ

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                                                                                  March 26, 2025 at 4:27 am
                                                                                  You are seeing his version of the story and the courts probably saw both the sides. He is richer than his wife so he obviously had better lawyers too.

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                                                                                      March 26, 2025 at 6:31 am
                                                                                      Why are you this interested in a random persons divorce?

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                                                                                      Why are you this interested in a random personโ€™s marriage?

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                                                                                        March 26, 2025 at 7:36 am
                                                                                        Alimony se acha hire a hitman.

                                                                                        Like wtf, your woman cheats on you with your money, then divorces and takes alimony to ride on another dick, wrapped in condom brought from your own money??

                                                                                        Really?

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                                                                                          March 26, 2025 at 1:11 pm
                                                                                          Haha thereโ€™s a Delhi high court judgement of April 2022, which clearly said – occasional or isolated acts of adultery by a wife do not disentitle her from receiving maintenance and alimony from her husband ๐Ÿ™‚ . Court has given legal rights to women to sleep around, but hey only occasional ha!

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                                                                                            Divorce terms from a legal perspective are focused on ensuring continued financial and social stability – not on personal or personal rights or wrongs. Adultery isn’t considered a crime, but a breach of a civil contract (similar to a business partnership). Ideally it should be penalised at least to the extent of financial/social fraud. But at this time, adultery is only considered grounds for contested divorce usually only when combined with cruelty. Financial rights granted by marriage and in case of divorce do not get affected.

                                                                                            The law considers the right to living without risk of destitution a greater human right than protecting a married couple’s right to sexual fidelity. It’s considered morally wrong by society, but the law does not consider it an offence great enough to drive anyone to financial destitution.

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                                                                                              March 27, 2025 at 12:21 am
                                                                                              It is simply a financial calculation and nothing to do with the personal issues between be couple .

                                                                                              As it is considered that the couple have together contributed to the money earned by wife . As in she took the burden of childbirth , child care , cooking etc as thatโ€™s the general trend . So she is given a part of that wealth generated during marriage.

                                                                                              Ofcourse it is infuriating that the cheater is getting all these benefits but thatโ€™s the financial angle.

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                                                                                                  March 27, 2025 at 10:34 am
                                                                                                  These people completely disregard the fact that alimony is gender neutral. If the man had helped in making his wife financially independent, he would be the one getting money. Instead,he curtailed her career and is now crying about the same.

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                                                                                                  indian law bro

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                                                                                                    Many have said legality vs morality.

                                                                                                    Just to be clear, they’re referring to the laws of the land.

                                                                                                    It doesn’t matter that the laws of the land are far less worth than the garbage abundantly found on Indian streets (though that situation is improving because of better garbage collection and not better civic sense).

                                                                                                    They aren’t saying that it’s right that the adulterer deserves alimony. They’re just saying that as long as the adulterer is a woman, she will get alimony and benefits and that their men, especially soft and noble men, have been fornicated the wrong way and in the wrong end.

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                                                                                                      Demanding != getting

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                                                                                                        They deserve no dime. All the alimony is the fine you pay for your naviety

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