Islamic Marriages

 

Mahr and related issues

 

The legal implications of Islamic Divorce formats in Islamic marriages within the MPL

Arbitration, as a step before proceeding towards an Islamic Divorce

 

Legal procedures relating to changing the (South African) community of property marital contract

 

The implications of Ismah

 

Khul'

 

Faskh

 
 
 
 

 

Custody, Guardianship and Maintenance in Islam

Custody

 

Guardianship

 

Maintenance for the wife

1. Obligatory 3 month maintenance for the wife after an Islamic divorce

Maintenance for the children

2. Maintenance obligation towards the children

Other

Maintenance during physical separation (not Faskh -annulment) due to the husband's fault
The husband's duty to provide Nafaqah (maintenance of wife and family)
Maintenance claims during separation prior to a divorce
Details relating to the Nafaqah of a female during her stay at her parent's home while an annulment of the marriage by Faskh (islamic judicial annulment without the pronunciation of a divorce)