'Not an exorbitant amount...': Bombay HC dismisses plea of father refusing to pay son's increased accommodation fee
Bombay High Court has ruled that a father must continue to pay for his 19-year-old son’s accommodation in the UK, despite a rise in charges from the previous academic year. The decision came after the man refused to pay the increased costs, claiming his son had chosen a larger bedroom, which led to a higher price.
The case stemmed from an ongoing dispute between the divorced parents regarding maintenance payments. The boy’s mother had approached the High Court after the father refused to cover the accommodation charges for the academic year 2024-25.
The father, a prominent urologist, had already agreed to pay for the son’s university fees as per an earlier court order but balked at paying the increased accommodation charges.
In a judgment delivered on Monday, Justices Burgess Colabawalla and Somasekhar Sundaresan ruled that the father could not be absolved of his financial responsibility.
«We do not think that this increase is something that is so exorbitant which would absolve the appellant-husband from paying the accommodation charges,» the Court observed.
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