THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE B. CHANDRA KUMAR F.C.A. No. 188 of 2010 Judgment: (Per Hon’ble Sri Justice B. Chandra Kumar) This appeal is directed against the order and decree dated 23.04.2010 passed in F.C.O.P. No. 135 of 2007 by the Judge, Family Court-cum-V Additional District and Sessions Judge, Tirupati. The parties are hereinafter referred to as they are arrayed before the lower Court for the sake of convenience. The petitioner is the daughter-in-law of the respondent. The petitioner filed the above FCOP No. 135 of 2007 seeking maintenance from the respondent. The brief facts of the case are as follows. The petitioner’s marriage was solemnized with the son of the respondent on 15.12.2005. The husband of the petitioner was suffering from HIV positive and ultimately died on 07.04.2007 while undergoing treatment. The petitioner contended that her husband was having a share in the joint family properties i.e., A, B and C schedule properties and therefore she is entitled to maintenance and claimed maintenance at the rate of Rs.10,000/- per month. Though the respondent contended that the schedule properties are his self acquired properties, but however, during the course of cross- examination he admitted that under Ex.B9 partition deed he got A and B schedule properties, therefore, it is clear that A and B schedule properties are the ancestral properties of the joint family, in which the husband of the petitioner had got a share. The Court below, on proper appreciation of the entire evidence on record, having found that A and B schedule properties are not the self acquired properties of the respondent and holding that they are the ancestral properties, and having taken into consideration the family background, financial status and requirement of the petitioner and also the present cost of living, has rightly awarded maintenance of Rs.2,000/- per month, and we do not see any reason to interfere with the same in exercise of appellate jurisdiction. The appeal is devoid of merit and the same is accordingly dismissed. No costs. ________________ N.V. RAMANA, J. ______________________ B. CHANDRA KUMAR, J. Date: 30.11.2010 Nsr