ABSTRACT
Under Moslem law the relations between parents and children are no less remarkable than the relations between husband and wife. The legal technique which greatly facilitates this outcome is that of acknowledgment. The blood relationship between the child and his parents, combined with his neediness, entitle him to maintenance from them, essentially from the father alone, but when the father is dead or unable to provide for his own needs, the obligation devolves upon the mother at least partially or temporarily. A child has a right to maintenance until the age when he is able to earn his own livelihood, but a daughter is entitled to it until her marriage. The same 1917 Ottoman Family Law is in force also in Lebanon. The 1953 Syrian Law of Personal Status says nothing about maintenance for a child who is a student.
