In Hindus, laws with respect to alimony are represented by private acts just as the central act. The articulation utilized in the opening piece of Section 25 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 empowers the provision of alimony or maintenance. This provision can’t be limited distinctly to the decree of legal separation under Section 10 or divorce under Section 13. It envelops inside the articulation a wide range of decrees, for example, compensation of matrimonial rights under Section 9, legal separation under Section 10, announcing marriage as invalid and void under Section 11, dissolution of marriage as voidable under Section 12 and divorce under Section 13.

Any court practicing its jurisdiction may, on application made by either the spouse or the husband, can order either the husband or the wife, by and large, to pay to the applicant for her or his maintenance and bolster such gross aggregate or such month to month or periodical total for a term not surpassing the life of the applicant.

The things which the court remember while choosing the quantum for support are:

• The income of the party against whom alimony has been asserted.
• Property of the party against whom alimony has been guaranteed.
• The income and other property of the applicant wanting the alimony.
• The conduct of the parties in alimony and different conditions of the case.

On the off chance that the court is satisfied that there is an option in the conditions of either party whenever after the quantum of alimony has been fixed by the court. The court may, at the case of either party, shift, change or repeal any such request in such a way as the court may consider just.

On the off chance that the court is satisfied that the party in whose favor an order has been made under this section has remarried or where the spouse has had sex with any lady outside wedlock may adjust the quantum of alimony.