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Husband's Rights in Marriage Under Jordanian Law

Husband's moral and legal rights in the marriage contract: kind companionship, lawful obedience, providing housing, and family-life management

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

The Jordanian Personal Status Law gives the husband rights balanced with the wife's, united by one foundation: mutual good companionship. Article 77 makes it incumbent on each spouse to treat the other well and kindly and to exchange respect, affection, and mercy and to preserve the family's interest.

Article 78 provides that the husband must not prevent his wife from visiting her ascendants, descendants, and siblings in a reasonable manner, and that the wife is to obey her husband in lawful matters — obedience being confined to the lawful, not otherwise. Article 74 addresses controls on who lives with the spouses, and Article 75 on cohabiting with another wife, in a way that preserves the husband's right in the marital home and balances it with the wife's right.

The husband's rights are thus tied to his duties: there is no obedience in disobedience to God, and no right that extinguishes the other party's right.

Assessing the limits of these rights and the extent of any breach remains within the Sharia Court's competence on the facts of each case.

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

What stipulations may the husband make?
No work outside the home in traditional jurisprudence, residence in his work country with reasonable mobility, a specific lifestyle within Sharia bounds, no moving without his permission for long travel.
What are his rights regarding divorce and polygamy?
Right to divorce by express will with documentation, right of return in revocable divorce, right to polygamy under strict Sharia conditions and court permission, and right of annulment upon condition breach or harm.
What voids his rights?
Failure to maintain may lead to separation, physical or psychological harm gives the wife the right to divorce for harm, unfair polygamy gives the first wife the right of annulment, and clear neglect.

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