Presents and Gifts: Wife’s Right to Retain Possessions Brought from Her Parental Home After Divorce
Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei
Presents and Gifts: Wife’s Right to Retain Possessions Brought from Her Parental Home After Divorce
English:
Question #1709:
In the event of divorce, is it permissible for the wife to take away the things, such as linen, carpets, and clothes, which she brought with her from her parents’ home?
Answer #1709:
Things that the wife brought with her from her parents’ home, that she bought for herself, or that were given to her as a present are rightfully hers. It is within her right to demand that it be given back to her if they are still available. She has no right, though, to demand from the husband to return to her the things which have been given as gifts to the husband by the family or relatives of the wife. If they exist, the granter of the gifts should decide. That is, it is within the granter’s jurisdiction to revoke the gift transaction and take it back provided that the husband is not a blood relative of the granter.
-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Presents and Gifts