The legal and legitimate rooting for the issue of alimony in the Iraqi Personal Status Law

Abstract

Marital alimony is one of the inalienable rights of the wife over her husband according to the correct marriage contract, and it is one of the effects of the marriage contract, and this alimony has great importance in marital life and a prominent role in the stability of the family, which is the basic building block of society. The alimony comes in exchange for the wife's obedience to her husband And devote herself to manage her home and rearing her children .In recent times, some doubts have been raised about the feasibility and justification of alimony, as some feminist organizations considered Feminism it a means of humiliating women and a reason for the wife’s subordination to her husband. So she demanded to be removed from the law. The purpose of this research is to demonstrate the legal and legitimate basis for the issue of alimony, and the extent of the legislator’s authority to raise or amend it, with an indication of the legality and legitimately of the amendments made to the articles related to alimony in the Iraqi Personal Status Law under the Amendment Law No. (15) of 2008, and it’s through the statement of the verses, hadiths, and legal texts related to alimony, and the views of the jurists in their analysis and interpretation.