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Is the apartment the right of the wife or the husband?

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The apartment is the right of whoever owns or rents it, whether it is the husband or the wife. If the wife is divorced with a revocable divorce, she is entitled to residence in her husband's house during the waiting period (iddah), as Allah the Almighty says: (Do not expel them from their houses, nor should they leave, unless they commit a clear immorality. And these are the limits of Allah. And whoever transgresses the limits of Allah has certainly wronged himself) [Al-Talaq: 1]. If the divorced wife is the custodian of the children, the divorced husband must provide suitable housing for his children and for her as a dependant of them.

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