So Iām an india forums lurker and am occasionally active on the PS forum as well as barrister babu sometimes. I read GHKPM forum to get updates on the show since I CANNOT watch the show mainly because it genuinely frustrates me. However, I found this topic really interesting and thought I could provide some insight. They have made it clear time and again that Virat is from a 96k Maratha family. These families, if wealthy, tend to have a lot of land and businesses on their name, the kind of family the Chavanās are depicted to be makes me believe that they own ancestral land and businesses. These joint families in general tend to have each sibling take up a different aspect of the business and the earnings are more or less of the person handling it. Any other jobs that these people have are just a surplus to them. Hence they all get to have a more or less extravagant lifestyle however, there are clear visible gaps between the statuses internally. Like one DIL has more jewellery than the other and so on. Kaku has her husband's pension as well as her share in the land and business so does Ninad. Omi must be earning properly through whatever aspect of business he looks out for, enough to take responsibility of his son and DIL as well. Samraths mom must have some money from her husband's side and maybe a share in her fatherās property. Shivani seems to be independent. Samrat and Virat donāt have to worry about home, food, etc since thatās all taken care by their families their salaries are simple surplus pocket money. However, the monopoly is all in the eldersā hands in such families and you kinda have to get every expense approved by them if you arenāt earning thatās why karishma and mohit are in a sad situation since they have to ask elders for the money where as Saiee Virat Shivani Mansi Samrat and even patralekha for that matter earn and have completely self owned money at their dispense.