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Is a wife Islamically entitled to refuse living near her husband's family and meeting them weekly, and to refuse greeting them or preventing her children from visiting them?

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It is permissible to travel with one's wife far from her family, and she must obey her husband unless she stipulated before the marriage contract that she would not be moved. It is permissible for the wife to live near her husband's family if it is in a separate house and she is not harmed. The wife is Islamically required to be kind to her husband's family, and it is not permissible for her to abandon them or prevent her son from visiting them without a legitimate reason. The wife is not obligated to visit her husband's family, but she should do so to maintain kinship ties. The husband is advised to act wisely in resolving problems and to follow the Islamic steps for disciplining a disobedient wife.

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