When does a wife become unlawful to her husband after abandonment?
When does a wife become unlawful to her husband after abandonment? This question comes up a lot among wives in Saudi Arabia when a dispute turns into a long absence, abandonment in the marital bed, or a cutoff of maintenance, so the wife feels “suspended”: neither truly married in practice nor divorced. In Islamic Sharia and the Saudi Personal Status Law, abandonment is not automatically considered a divorce, but it may be recognized harm that justifies filing a lawsuit and …