Abstract

Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds, and may prayers and peace be upon the Master of the Messengers, and upon all his family and companions. Then, undoubtedly, a human being cannot live without food, drink, clothing, and shelter. These are the necessities of life that man seeks to provide, and since people vary in their earning and sustenance, so there are rich and poor, so the noble Islamic Sharia urges cooperation and solidarity between Members of society, especially among relatives, and from here came the alimony for relatives, which was decided by the Iraqi personal status Law. The relative has a right over his relative to spend on him by what satisfies his needs of food, drink and shelter, provided that the poor is unable to work and does not have a source of livelihood from which he can live, on the condition that the spender is solvent and has the ability to pay his basic needs and what exceeds it he spends on his relatives, which is known as the alimony of relatives.