{"id":2650,"date":"2020-09-30T10:35:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T08:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2020-09-30T10:35:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T08:35:54","slug":"whose-responsibility-is-it-to-financially-provide-for-a-divorced-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2650","title":{"rendered":"Whose responsibility is it to financially provide for a divorced woman?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Whose responsibility is it to financially provide for a divorced woman?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. My father divorced my mother and left her with no financial assistance whatsoever. Whose responsibility is it to financially provide for my mother now? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Is it the son\u2019s responsibility only? Do the daughter\u2019s also have a responsibility to provide for my mother? We are 6 children, 2 sons and 4 daughters. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A. <\/strong>In a marriage, a husband is primarily responsible to financially provide for his wife until a divorce (Talaaq) takes place and the wife\u2019s waiting (Iddah) period terminates. Thereafter, the ex-husband has no financial responsibility towards his ex-wife.<\/p>\n<p>In that case, the financial responsibility to provide for the ex-wife falls upon the children if they are capable of doing so. As such, the sons and daughters become equally responsible to financially provide for their mother once she is divorced\/unmarried. <strong>(Shaami 3\/623)<\/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>Whose responsibility is it to financially provide for a divorced woman? Q. My father divorced my mother and left her with no financial assistance whatsoever. Whose<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":[67,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laws-of-women","category-mirath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650","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=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2651,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions\/2651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}