law: Convert's Marriage Dissolution Act, 1866
  28. Power to Court to award alimony
  If a suit be commenced under the provisions of
  
  this Act, and it appear to the Court that the wife has not sufficient separate
  
  property to enable her to maintain herself suitably to her station in life and
  
  to prosecute or defend the suit, the Court may, pending the suit, order the
  
  husband to furnish the wife with sufficient funds to enable her to prosecute or
  
  defend the suit, and also for her maintenance pending the suit.
  If the suit be brought by a husband against a
  
  wife, the Court may by the decree order the husband to make such allowance to
  
  his wife for her maintenance during the remainder of her life as the Court
  
  shall think just, and having regard to the condition and station in life of the
  
  parties.
  Any allowance so ordered shall cease from the
  
  time of any subsequent marriage of the wife.