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IDAChapter IXSection 38
Section38

Court may direct payment of alimony to wife or to her trustee

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When the court orders alimony, it can require payments be made to the wife herself or to a trustee approved by the court. The court may impose terms or restrictions on those payments. If needed, the court can from time to time appoint a new trustee.

Example

Priya gets a decree for monthly alimony but is undergoing medical treatment and cannot manage money. The court directs her husband to pay the alimony to a trustee it approves, with a condition that the trustee use the funds for Priya's living and medical expenses. Later, if that trustee fails, the court can appoint a new trustee.

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In all cases in which the Court makes any decree or order for alimony, it may direct the same to be paid either to the wife herself, or to any trustee on her behalf to be approved by the Court, and may impose any terms or restrictions which to the Court seem expedient, and may from time to time appoint a new trustee, if it appears to’ the Court expedient so to do.

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IX

Chapter IX

Alimony

In this chapter

  • 36Alimony pendente lite
  • 37Power to order permanent alimony
  • 38Court may direct payment of alimony to wife or to her trustee
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