India, Oct. 3 -- A mother's determination to build a better career and secure a financially stable future for her children has helped her overturn a custody order in favour of her estranged husband, who, the court criticised for, devoting his energies to prolonged litigation instead of improving his own financial position.

The Supreme Court has permitted the woman, an academic with a Ph.D in engineering, to take her two children to the United Kingdom, where she has secured a teaching job, and enroll them in a school there.

"The efforts made by the appellant-mother even while contesting the multi-pronged litigation to pursue different jobs and thereby ensuring financial security for herself and for the children is indeed appreciable and ...