What is the legal ruling regarding a wife's refusal to return to the marital home and her request for divorce without cause, and her family's refusal to meet with reconcilers? Is the husband entitled to make it difficult for her and refuse to divorce her, or demand that she relinquish custody of their daughter in exchange for divorce?
If the wife requests a divorce without a valid reason, the husband is not obligated to grant her request. However, he is permitted to divorce her in exchange for money she pays to him. As for conditioning the divorce on the wife renouncing custody of her daughter, this is a matter of dispute among scholars.
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