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How Does Divorce Affect Spousal and Child Maintenance in Jordan?

How divorce affects spousal and child maintenance under Jordanian law: what continues, what stops, and what transforms.

Based on official Jordanian law — Personal Status Law No. 15 of 2019
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Based on official Jordanian legal texts

Divorce in Jordan affects general spousal maintenance by ending it and replacing it with the bounded ʿidda maintenance set out in Articles 151 and 152, so the divorced wife receives maintenance throughout her ʿidda — covering housing, food, clothing, and medical care — which ends when the ʿidda ends.

Child support, by contrast, is unaffected by the divorce. Article 187 makes it an obligation on a father of means, continuing for sons until they can earn and for daughters until they marry, and including educational and medical maintenance under Articles 190 and 192. Article 168 provides that a divorced mother is not owed breastfeeding wages during the ʿidda of revocable divorce, but is owed them during the ʿidda of irrevocable divorce and afterward.

Child support is a right belonging to the children that the spouses cannot extinguish by agreement, so it may not be waived in a way that harms them. Likewise the deferred dowry becomes due on divorce under Article 42 as a financial right independent of maintenance.

Thus divorce severs general spousal maintenance but leaves other financial rights in place according to the type of divorce and the family's circumstances.

This is a general explanation based on Jordanian Personal Status Law and does not replace advice from a qualified lawyer in a specific dispute.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is a divorcée entitled to maintenance after the ʿidda?
No. Maintenance ends with the ʿidda without rajʿa. After that, the divorcée has no maintenance claim against her former husband.
Does child support change if the mother remarries?
No. The mother's remarriage does not affect the father's child-support obligation.
Does back-maintenance lapse with divorce?
No. Maintenance owed before divorce is a debt and can be claimed in a separate case.

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