Petition against maintenance allowance dismissed

LAHORE :The Lahore High Court on Monday dismissed a petition of a man with Rs50,000 cost/fine, who disowned fatherhood of his daughter to challenge a lower court’s decision of giving maintenance allowance to his daughter.
Khalid Javed of Nankana Sahib had filed the petition against the decision issued by a family court wherein he was ordered to pay Rs 5,000 per month to his minor daughter living with his former wife. The man had also denied the legitimacy of the child before the family court but his argument was rejected as a matter of jurisdiction.
He took same plea before the high court while challenging the family court’s order. The petitioner through counsel contended that since their marriage in 2006 his wife remained at her parents’ house and never lived with him. Later, the petitioner said, he disassociated himself from his wife due to her alleged immoral character.
The counsel argued that the minor was not the daughter of the petitioner and she was not entitled to claim maintenance allowance.He asked the court to set aside the decision of the family court for being illegal and without lawful jurisdiction. Justice Shahid Jamil took strong notice of the plea taken by the petitioner and dismissed his petition with cost/fine of Rs 50,000.