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Kitabun Nafaqat [Maintenance] - Maintenance of Blood Relatives [Zawil Arham]

Question 1754) - Is maintenance of for relatives besides parents and children Wajib?

A: Maintenance is wajib for blood relatives one cannot marry according to their inheritance shares; 50 when it is a poor minor, or poor adult female, or chronically ill male, or poor blind person.

NOTE: If the court rules that he must maintain children, parents and relatives and sometime passes without him paying then the amount is forfeit unless the court permits them to take incur debt against him.51

* E.g. he has a grandfather and son of son. The grandfather is responsible for a sixth of his maintenance and the son's son for the rest; because if he dies then they inherit from him in that proportion.

* i.e. the passage of time does not absolve him of liability of debts incurred with the court's permission.

~ al-Quduri ~