Is the maintenance of unmarried sisters obligatory upon their able brother, and does this obligation cease if one of them is employed, or if the brother is married?
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The maintenance of daughters is from their own wealth if they possess any. If they are poor and do not possess what they can spend on themselves, then we have clarified when their maintenance becomes obligatory upon their brother in no. 68872.
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