If the husband is in financial hardship and the wife is the primary provider for the family, and the husband's mother is financially well-off, is the husband obligated to give his intermittent income to his mother, or to his wife, or should he divide it between them?
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The husband is not obligated to spend on his mother if she is self-sufficient. Rather, he is obligated to spend on his wife in a reasonable manner. He must pay his wife the maintenance for the period during which he did not spend on her, and this maintenance becomes a debt upon him.
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