Orders for maintenance, custody, or education

34.-(1) The Court may-

(a)when granting a divorce or judicial separation; or

(b) in respect of the infant children of any marriage which has been dissolved under the Sheri Law before the coming into operation of this Law; or

(c) where a husband has been guilty of wilful neglect to provide reasonable maintenance for his wife or the infant children of the marriage,

exercise the powers conferred upon the Court by subsection (2) of section 8 of the Turkish Family Courts Law, and may order the husband to provide for the maintenance of the wife and the maintenance and education of such children.

(2) No maintenance order shall be made in respect of any period prior to the date of the application for such order; and no sum due on a maintenance order for more than one year shall be recoverable.

(3) The Court may discharge or vary any order made under this section or suspend any provision thereof temporarily and may revive the operation of any provision so suspended: in so doing the Court shall have regard to all the circumstances of the case including any increase or decrease in the means of either party to the marriage.