An outstanding work by an experienced and retired Judge covering almost all the problems and their probable solutions relating to the provisions of maintenance appearing in CrPC and other different statutes. This will help the readers to grasp the entire gamut of law and to understand the current position of the controversial issues like maintenance of second wife when the first one is living, maintenance of unchaste wife, maintenance of Muslim divorced women even after the iddat period, maintenance of illegitimate children, DNA test to determine paternity, maintenance of parents and senior citizens which are some of them.