law: Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, I936 
  39. Alimony pendente lite
  
  
  Where in any suit
  
  under this Act, it appears to the Court that either the wife or the husband, as
  
  the case may be, has no independent income sufficient for her or his support
  
  and the necessary expenses of the suit, it may, on the application of the wife
  
  or the husband order the defendant to pay to the plaintiff the expenses of the
  
  suit,. and such weekly or monthly sum, during the suit as, having regard to the
  
  plaintiffs own income and the income of the defendant, it may seem to the Court
  
  to be reasonable.