5 Property Rights after Divorce, Alimony and Maintenance

1. The property-division rule: the equal division of the property accumulated during the marriage-and-joint-family phase — the spouse's share (the wife's historically-fought share: the Ain-amendment's journey to the Code's equal regime); the personal-property separation (pre-marriage self-acquired property remains); the partition-and-deed mechanics (Unit 6); 2. Alimony and maintenance: the Civil Code's Article 100 — the spouse's election of monthly or annual allowances instead of the property share; the court's determination by the parties' means-and-needs; the interim maintenance during proceedings; the post-divorce continuation where the statute-and-decree provide; the children's maintenance as the non- negotiable layer (the parents' duty regardless of the divorce — Children's Act 2075); 3. The practice critique: alimony's under-award reality (the property-less husband problem and the asset-hiding practice); the informal "return to the natal home empty-handed" pattern; the dowry's unreturned property as the hidden litigation (the dowry-return disputes' jurisprudence — the courts' evolving protection).