D.S.A. Perera Vs. Priyani Perera, CA (PHC) Application No. 383/2008 – PHC/86/09-2008

In the case between Thilaka Wadasinghe Liyanarathnage (applicant/respondent) and Hudson Samarasinghe (respondent/petitioner), the court addressed the issue of whether an application for maintenance, filed by the applicant for herself and her adult son, was maintainable in light of the respondent’s prior bigamy conviction and the resulting question of the marriage’s legal validity. The sequence of events included determinations regarding the appropriateness of joinder of claims, issues of appellate and revisionary procedure under the Maintenance Act No. 37 of 1999, and the sufficiency of exceptional circumstances for the invocation of revisionary jurisdiction. It was held that applications challenging interim or incidental orders concerning maintainability, as opposed to final orders on pay