Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated ActsWhere the court, upon complaint made by or on behalf of a wife, is satisfied--
(a) that she is left by her husband without adequate means of support provided by him and was so left on the date alleged in the complaint; or
(b) that her husband is about to remove out of Queensland or into a distant part of Queensland and leave her without adequate means of support provided by him;
the court may order the husband to pay for or towards her maintenance such amount as it thinks reasonable.