A court has ordered a man to find a home for his wife within six months to resolve ongoing conflicts between her and his mother.
In an interesting judgment on whether a married woman can live with her mother-in-law, Chief Kadhi Abdulhalim Athman said that it was the husband's duty to ensure his wife enjoys her marital rights by providing proper shelter. "It is his obligation, not the respondent's, to look for independent accommodation for both his mother and wife," the Chief Kadhi ruled.
He is hereby ordered to look for a one-bedroom self-contained apartment within Mombasa as their matrimonial house within sixty (60) days from the date of this judgment," said Athman.
The conflict between the couple began when the man insisted on staying in his mother's house.
