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What Is Relatives' Maintenance in Jordanian Law and Its Conditions?
When relatives' maintenance is owed under Jordanian law — descendants, ascendants, and siblings — and the entitlement conditions.
⚖ Based on official Jordanian law — Personal Status Law No. 15 of 2019
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- ⚖Cites Personal Status Law No. 15 of 2019
Frequently Asked Questions
- Who primarily owes relatives' maintenance?
- Solvent children are obligated to maintain their poor parents. Then solvent siblings for their minor siblings, then other relatives in order.
- What are the entitlement conditions?
- Maintenance-triggering kinship by law, the entitled party's insolvency, the obligated party's solvency, and absence of someone with prior priority.
- How is it judicially claimed?
- By filing a relatives'-maintenance case at the Sharia Court with proof of insolvency, obligated party's means, kinship certificate, and hearing of parties before ruling.
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