law: Special Marriage Act, 1954 
  36. Alimony pendente lite
  Where in any
  
  proceeding under Chapter V or Chapter VI it appears to the district court that
  
  the wife has no independent income sufficient for her support and the necessary
  
  expenses of the proceeding, it may, on the application of the wife, order the
  
  husband to pay to her the expenses of the proceeding, and weekly or monthly
  
  during the proceeding such sum as, having regard to the husband’s income, it
  
  may seem to the court to be reasonable.