The Western Cape High Court this week criticised a wealthy husband for his selfishness for saying the wife must first seek financial support from her own parents before asking him for maintenance, reports The Mercury.

Judge Daniel Thulare delivered judgment while the divorce proceedings were still before the courts, awarding R3 000 per month for the minor child's maintenance and R25 000 per month for the wife's maintenance. 

‘I find it extremely selfish and lacking in self-respect to hear a rich husband who can afford to maintain his wife, claiming that the wife must first look to her own parents to support her, before she can approach him for her maintenance,’ Thulare said.

He ordered that the husband must keep the child and wife on his medical aid or any medical aid with the same benefits they were enjoying and that he continue bearing school expenses.

The court order also stipulated that the wife would have sole use of the VW Touareg vehicle currently in her possession and that the husband keep the car fully paid for, maintained and insured.

Additionally, the husband was ordered to contribute R200 000 towards the wife's costs in the divorce matter.

Full report in The Mercury

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