What is the religious ruling on a wife seeking divorce from her ill-mannered husband, who abandons her and prevents her from maintaining ties of kinship, despite his generosity, prayers, and fasting, out of fear of the temptation of living with him, and her apprehension for her children lest he deprive her of seeing them?

First: Patience is good and its outcome is excellent.

Second: Supplicating for the husband in his absence is answered.

Third: Advising the husband and reminding him of good companionship, and seeking help from those who hold influence with him when needed. The husband must spend on his wife and children in a reasonable manner, and she has the right to take from his money what suffices her if he is stingy.

Fourth: A woman has the right to seek divorce if she is harmed, but she should deliberate and consult wise people before proceeding with it. If divorce occurs, custody belongs to the mother as long as she does not remarry, and neither parent has the right to prevent the other from seeing the children.

Fifth: The husband should not prevent his wife from visiting her relatives, especially her parents, unless there is a legitimate reason.

Sixth: Intervention of family members between the spouses should be for good and reconciliation, not for corruption.

Seventh: The husband's brothers and nephews are non-mahram to the wife. Therefore, she is not permitted to allow any of them into the house in an illicit manner, or if the husband dislikes it.