right to maintenance

Her right to maintenance was not lost by desertion.

The mortgagor has the right to maintenance of the mortgaged property.

Consequently, a seaman can lose his right to maintenance, while the obligation to provide cure is ongoing.

Other language communities, the ones specifically mentioned are indigenous groups, are granted the right to maintenance and development of their own language.

The major legal themes of the reformists focus around polygamy, women's rights to Divorce and women's rights to maintenance upon divorce.

To lobby for policy-level changes for ensuring women's right, including right to inheritance, right to ownership of property, right to maintenance in the event of divorce and desertion.

All that is needed is laws allowing her, if she will, to resign her right of dower, her right to maintenance and her immunity from discipline, and to make any other terms that she may be led to regard as equitable.

(It is interesting to compare Fawcett's position to that of Ramsay MacDonald, whose adherence to patriarchal views within the family surpassed his faith in collectivism in the matter of family allowances; he declared that under socialism the mother and children's right to maintenance would be honoured by the male breadwinner, not the state.)