- Divorce ends the marriage and all rights and privileges that accrue to married people.
- The court may make orders relating to the division of property and payment of alimony or maintenance of the wife
- The court may also determine which of the spouse is to remain with the children and provide for the maintenance of the children
- Under Islamic law, the wife takes the property in her room and the children remain with the father.
- Divorce means that the two parties become single again and have rights to re-marry any other person of their choice.
- The divorced people do not benefit from the estate of either of them should one of them die. The relationship is completely terminated.