In a significant legal precedent, India's Allahabad High Court determined that a woman cannot claim spousal maintenance rights from a second partner unless she formally dissolves her first marriage. The July 10 judgment clarifies that cohabitation without legal divorce does not establish conjugal status, rejecting the woman's maintenance petition. This ruling reinforces the necessity of proper legal dissolution procedures before entering new domestic relationships and highlights the court's stance on marital obligations under Indian family law.

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