Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Q&A Financial Maintenance of Children Whose Obligation is It

			If the government is giving money,
funds to low income disabled
		

			families, will it? Will it lift
the responsibility of the husband?
		

			Or the father to earn for the
family? Yeah, that's a good
		

			question. That's a good question.
What it is, is that
		

			to earn for the children and for
the family, the money that has to
		

			be used first, technically
speaking, right is their money. So
		

			if a child, right, if a child has
his own money, like inheritance,
		

			for example, then you could
actually spend from that child's
		

			money on them on their own
clothes, and everything is not a
		

			primary responsibility on the
father, the primary responsibility
		

			comes from the child's own, but
generally, children don't have
		

			their own money. So that's why it
has to be provided. Now, if the
		

			government is providing it, then
technically speaking, you don't
		

			have to tell the husband this, but
they are absolved of this
		

			responsibility. Because the main
purpose and objective is that the
		

			child the children is looked
after. So if they're being looked
		

			after, by any source, any funding,
then the husband, then the
		

			husbands responsibility is
fulfilled. So basically, what I'm
		

			trying to say is that it's not an
obligation on the husband, that he
		

			must fulfill it, despite the fact
that there's other money there.
		

			Right? With the wife, though,
during the marriage, and during
		

			the eight day period, the husband
has to pay her, even if she's got
		

			her own money, he's responsible
for that. When it comes to
		

			children, if they've got their own
money, you could technically use
		

			that money, right to fulfill the
responsibility when it comes to if
		

			they don't have the money, but
somebody else is providing that
		

			money, then technically, the
husband's responsibility is being
		

			fulfilled. So you don't have to
tell your husbands that if you
		

			don't want to, and you want them
to earn for you, but the idea is
		

			that yes, the husband's
responsibility is fulfilled, if
		

			the money is being received from
elsewhere, because the main
		

			objective is that somebody is, is
voluntarily I mean, the government
		

			voluntarily is providing. So at
hamdulillah they've been provided,
		

			that's the main thing, you know,
what would be the extra four? Of
		

			course, it may not seem nice for
the husband I know of fathers who
		

			have been divorced and who insist
on paying and giving to their
		

			wives, sorry for their children,
right, even if they've been cut
		

			off, because they want to show
that they are the father, right.
		

			So that in the future, that child
is not going to say that you
		

			deserted me, right. So there is
that aspect of it, but if the
		

			children are being supplied, and
you know with sufficient, then
		

			that should be sufficient. The
husband is not not then obliged,
		

			generally speaking.