The wife does not remain entitled to separate residence and maintenance
(1) When she becomes convert,
(2) When she becomes unchaste,
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(3) When she resides separately without any reasonable justification,
(4) When the wife lives separately as a result of compromise and waives her right of maintenance.
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Section 18(3) provides only for the first two grounds under which the right of separate residence and maintenance is forfeited. The latter two grounds have been evolved from the judicial pronouncements.
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Recently, in Surjit Singh v. Gurdev Singh, the Court observed that if wife is living in adultery, there is no ground to deny her interim maintenance, particularly when she was not in position to maintain herself.