What is the religious ruling regarding a wife who refuses to return to the marital home, which she owns and helped build, after visiting her mother, insisting on living near her family despite her husband's attempts to persuade her? And is the husband obligated to divorce her due to her insistence on disobeying him and not responding to advice?

A wife must reside wherever her husband requests, unless this causes her harm, or there is a legitimate excuse, such as her stipulating before the marriage contract that he would not move her out of her parents' home. If she refuses without a valid excuse, then she is disobedient (nashiz), and Islamic law addresses her disobedience through known steps, the last of which is divorce.