The two issues that pronouncedly emanate in this appeal by special leave are whether the Family Court while deciding an application under Section of the Family Court Act for brevity ... the Act which includes determination of grant of maintenance to the persons as entitled under that provision should allowadjournments in an extremely liberal manner remaining oblivious of objects and reasons of the Act and also keeping the windows of wisdom closed and the sense of judicial responsiveness suspended to the manifest perceptibility of vagrancy destitution impecuniosity struggle for survival and the emotional fracture a wife likely to face under these circumstances and further exhibiting absolute insensitivity to her condition who after loosing support of the husband who has failed to husband the marital status denies the wife to have maintenance for almost nine years as that much time is consumed to decide the lis and in addition to restrict the grant of maintenance to the date of order on some kind of individual notion Both the approaches as we perceive not only defeat the command of the legislature but also frustrate the hope of wife and children who are deprived of adequate livelihood and whose aspirations perish like mushroom and possibly the brief candle of sustenance joins the marathon race of extinction

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