The financial regime of the family in Iran and France

Financial regime refers to a coherent set of rules in order to regulate the financial situation of couples with respect to each other, and their relationship with a third person. In the legal systems originating from the Roman and German systems, the regime enjoys a legal and conventional foundation; that is, the couples are free to choose any of the predetermined models in the civil law or to initiate an innovative model as a dominant regime. In the case that no specific regime is determined by the couples, the predetermined regime by law is imposed on them. The Islamic law has a coherent regime for the couples. Based on this financial regime, the man or the woman, after getting married, will be the owner of whatever possessions he or she brings along at the time of marriage or achieves later, and each will be free in managing and utilizing his or her possession with absolute autonomy. The present comparative article, in addition to the examination of couple's financial regime in Iran and France, provides a response to the suspicion that the Islamic legal system lacks coherent regulations for developing a financial regime in the relationship of couples. Therefore, it can be claimed that the applied system in Islam is the same regime, which some open-minded lawyers, in countries such as France, have recently tended toward.