ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the revolutionary changes by a contrast between two cases, one decided in 1967, and the other in 2000. Both cases are about grandparents, parents and children. The chapter focuses on the problems of those grandparents who are running out of money at the end of their lives. A large focus of the history of the law of the family was once property. The issues of security and the family affect everyone, since everyone is first an infant and, if all goes well, a senior citizen. Isaac Max Rubinow thought that the old agricultural family, in its multigenerational and patriarchal form, was dead. The chapter reviews issues of contract law that might arise within a specific cultural setting dealing with issues of contracts and contractual variation of a particular form of marriage. In Islamic law, marriage is primarily a contract, not a sacrament, and there are quite a lot of specific elements that can go into that contract.
