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Code of Muslim Personal Laws
198 provisions · showing BOOK TWO › TITLE IV (6) · source
Article 65
Support (nafaqa) includes everything that is indispensable for sustenance, dwelling, clothing and medical attendance according to the social standing of the person obliged to give it, and the education of the person entitled to the support until he completes his education, training, or vocation even beyond the age of majority.
Article 66
The amount of support shall be in proportion to the resources of the giver and to the needs of the recipient.
Article 67
(1) The wife shall be entitled to support during the marriage. In cases of divorce, (talaq), her right shall be extended up to the expiration of the 'idda. However, in case the wife is pregnant at the time of the separation, she shall be entitled to support until delivery. (2) Any divorced nursing mother who continues to breastfeed her child for two years shall be entitled to support until the time of weaning.
Article 68
The ascendants and descendants shall be obliged to support each other in the order in which they are called to succeed by intestacy the person who has a right to claim support.
Article 69
(1) The obligation to support shall be demandable from the time the recipient needs it for maintenance, but it shall not be paid except from the date it is extrajudicially demanded. (2) Payment shall be made daily, weekly or monthly in advance, and when the recipient dies, his heirs shall not be obliged to return what he had received in advance. (3) If the recipient is the wife, the rule established in the foregoing paragraph shall apply even though the marriage is dissolved.
Article 70
The obligation to support shall cease: (a) Upon the death of the recipient; (b) When the resources of the obligor have been so reduced that he cannot give the support without neglecting his own need and those of his family, except that in the case of the spouses, the husband, though needy, is obliged to support the wife; or (c) When the recipient commits any act which would give rise to disqualification to inherit or denial of support under Muslim law.