Custody and Maintenance
246 questions
What is the ruling on a mother who leaves the marital home without a reason, files for khul' (dissolution of marriage), prevents the father from seeing his children, and benefits from their money? What is the ruling on spending the children's money on a lawyer? What is the ruling on one parent depriving the child of the other? And what is the age at which custody ends?
Is it permissible for a daughter to take money from her mother, who is the sole provider but is restrictive in spending and does not give her daughter enough to meet her needs, to satisfy her needs and allow her to live as she wishes, and is this act forbidden and does it prevent the daughter's supplications from being answered?
Is it permissible for a father to withhold financial support for his children if their mother prevents him from seeing them and participating in their upbringing, and if she has stripped him of his guardianship and authority over them by virtue of the positive law that grants custody to the mother until the age of 15?
Is it permissible for a traveling husband to send money to his brother for his own pleasures, while depriving his household of it?
What is the ruling on a wife resorting to the Swiss judiciary instead of Islamic law after her husband verbally divorced her, and her seizing more than her due and her maintenance, and her refusal of the divorce to prevent her husband from marrying another, knowing that her divorce has not yet been judicially finalized?
What are the rights of a wife who has custody of the children if she asks for a divorce?