M E K M V. G L M

RULING OF THE COURT

1. This is an application for stay of execution of the High Court Order requiring the applicant to pay the respondent Kshs.20,000/= per month as maintenance pending hearing and determination of the appeal.

2. The applicant and the first respondent got married on 25^th August, 1989. Subsequently the applicant sought to have the marriage dissolved as well as maintenance.

3. The first respondent filed an answer to the petition and a cross petition. He also sought maintenance by the applicant.

4. On 19^th March, 2015 the High Court (Kimondo, J.) delivered a judgment allowing the petition and cross-petition for divorce on grounds of desertion and cruelty. The learned judge further ordered the applicant to pay maintenance to her enstranged husband in the sum of Kshs.20,000/= per month until the respondent “becomes capable of supporting himself; or, he remarries; or he dies, whichever is earliest.”

5. Being aggrieved by that decision, the applicant preferred an appeal to this Co…