CHILD PHYSICAL CUSTODY LAW IN ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE: AN ANALYTICAL STUDY IN THE CONTEXT OF FOUR SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT
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Physical custody of the child has become a major problem in our society nowadays because whenever the divorce takes place after the birth of the children, the children custody case hangs in the courts for years, each of the parent tries to keep them in her/his custody. Islam declares the right of legal custody to the father forever, but it declares women more entitled to physical custody, such as mother, then grandmother etc. it has also made a specific order for the entitled women, and has also determined a limit for this custody. It has fixed times for the termination of custody of both the boy and the girl child. Then the four famous Sunni Masaliks (Schools of thought) that are Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i and Hanbilah differ in the details of these legal points, all of which will be reviewed in this article. We will keep in view two famous books of Sunni comparative jurisprudence in the arrangement and explanation of these legal issues, although I have referred to the primary books of these schools for reference.
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