Criterion for alimony in jurisprudence of Shiite and civil code of Iran

One of the important matters in family law is standard of determining the amount of alimony. There is no Consensus on this issue among the Shia scholars. For example, while some have considered canonical status of husband, the majority of Shiite jurists believed to personal status of wife in relation to amount of food and to social status of wife about other needs and quality of it.
In this paper, It was concluded that legislator in article 1107 of civil code amended in 2002/11/10 has shown willingness to the majority opinion of last social status wife and father in law’s family in the before of marriage. Hereof, both subjective and objective standard has been used to identify and distinguish the territory and application of alimony.