{"id":1640,"date":"2019-07-03T14:34:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T12:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2019-07-03T14:34:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T12:34:15","slug":"does-a-husband-have-to-financially-support-his-wife-after-issuing-a-divorce-to-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1640","title":{"rendered":"Does a husband have to financially support his wife after issuing a divorce to her?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Does a husband have to financially support his wife after issuing a divorce to her?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. I have divorced my wife and she is sitting in Iddah. Do I as an ex-husband have any responsibilities to my now ex-wife? Do I have to pay my ex-wife\u2019s medical\/doctor\u2019s bills? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> In principle, it is the husband&#8217;s responsibility to provide financial support (Nafaqah) for his wife throughout the period of their marriage. This includes the necessities of life i.e. food, clothing and shelter. <strong>(Shaami 3\/572)<\/strong> It also includes the responsibility of medical and doctor\u2019s bill\u2019s as this is also a necessity of life. <strong>(Al-Fiqhul-Islaamiy-Wa Idillatuhu 10\/7381)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, just as the financial support (Nafaqah) is the responsibility upon the husband throughout the marriage, this remains a responsibility upon a husband even after a husband issues a divorce to his wife (revocable or irrevocable) until her Iddah period terminates. Therefore, as an ex-husband, it will still remain your responsibility to provide financial support (Nafaqah) to your ex-wife until her Iddah period terminates. <strong>(Shaami 3\/609)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does a husband have to financially support his wife after issuing a divorce to her?\u00a0 Q. I have divorced my wife and she is sitting in<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,59,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laws-of-women","category-nikah","category-talaq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}