The Delhi High Court has increased a woman’s interim maintenance to ₹1 lakh per month from ₹50,000. The wife had sought a raise, and the husband opposed the order. Justice Amit Mahajan said maintenance cannot be decided with exact math. "The determination of interim maintenance is not an exercise capable of mathematical precision," he explained. The case involved a husband working in the US for Amazon.com Services LLC as a software engineer, earning around ₹1.76 crore a year. The wife is unemployed. The court noted the cost of living in the US is higher and cannot be equated to Delhi’s. The court ruled that "mere earning in foreign currency does not, by itself, entitle the wife to claim maintenance by mechanically converting the husband's foreign income into Indian currency." The husband’s entire income could not be simply converted into rupees to fix maintenance. Instead, the court based its decision on available evidence, lifestyle, and reasonable estimates. It said, "The assessment necessarily involves a degree of estimation and informed guesswork." The Delhi HC raised the interim amount to ₹1 lakh monthly on December 23, 2025.