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Is it permissible for a wife to request a family arbitration session with her husband in the presence of her brother and father to discuss marital disputes and set conditions to avoid divorce, with a focus on her and her daughters' maintenance and legitimate rights?

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You have mentioned reprehensible matters from your husband that contradict good companionship, including cursing and reviling, which the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, forbade, saying: "The believer is not a slanderer, nor a curser, nor obscene, nor foul-mouthed." As for his stinginess in providing the obligatory maintenance, if this is the case, then raise your matter to the judge to compel him to fulfill it. The wife's service in her home is obligatory according to custom, and there should be cooperation and understanding between the spouses. As for the conditions you mentioned, there is no harm in them; they are a documentation of your due rights. Your writing down hadiths when he curses you is permissible to remind him of his error, but it is better to abandon it if it provokes him. In conclusion, both spouses must strive to avoid disagreements and resolve them wisely, in order to achieve tranquility, affection, and mercy.

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