Equivalent wage of duality time and NIHLAH (gift) with a view of Family Supporting Act 1391

Equivalent wage of marriage time and NIHLAH are among wife's financial rights that paying it, if claimed by her at the time of divorce, has been provided in Islamic law and Iranian statutory law. Equivalent wage of marriage time is a remuneration similar to the wage, that wife receives instead of services taken in husband's house, with his order and without donation intention. Iranian legislator, under provision 6, paragraph B of single article of amendment of divorce regulations 1371,recodnized NIHLAH as a compulsory gift that is paid to wife from husband's property at the time of divorce. The enactment of new Family Supporting Act 1391, and express omission of paragraph A of the above-mentioned provision, has made some important changes about titling equivalent wage, that based on it, and now is not indispensable because of demand divorce on behalf of the wife, not to offend spousal duties by the wife, lack of any financial conditions in marriage contract, now is not irrevocable. This article intends to deal with the present legal position of equivalent wage of marriage time and NIHLAH in the Iranian law with a view of Family Supporting Act 1391.