Husband Towards Wife’s Expenditure and the Mandatory Applied Law

Abstract

The right marriage that satisfies all legal conditions provides a set of rights and obligations on both parties(the wife and husband). These include material and non-material rights and obligations. As to material rights, the husband must provide the wife with the expenditure, and this must be proven, and this is enshrined in Quran, Sunna and social creds, as referred to in the Iraqi civil status law. Yet, the question is: shall such expenditure obligations by the husband remain in place after the marriage or legal separation officially ends? Does such expenditure applicable during the three months waiting time after the divorce or separation takes place? And, does such expenditure mandatory at any time? What is the law provision in the matter of husband expenditure towards the wife, and other related expenditures towards the main relatives (father, mother, grandfather and grandmother) and towards secondary relatives (daughters, sons, nephews, and nieces), as well as towards temporary expenditures. We strive in this research to answer all these questions