%0 Journal Article
%T An Analysis of Dower Insurance in Iranian Legal System
%A Azadeh Azardar
%A Majid Doroudian
%A Tahmineh Rahmani
%J specialty journal of politics and law
%@ 2520-3282
%D 2019
%V 4
%N 4
%P 8-18
%X The present study aimed to determine the position of dower (Mahrieh) insurance in the Iranian ‎legal system and to examine the conditions as well as the main advantages of dower insurance ‎in the Iranian legal system. The research method was descriptive, documentary and analytical ‎containing a qualitative analysis. Dower insurance is one type of insurances in Iran. The ‎insurance conditions have been determined in such a way that it can cover just some dowers or ‎part of them. In fact, dower insurance is considered as mixed life insurance whose purpose is to ‎invest and save money in order to bail the wife out. In the dower insurance, the husband makes ‎a long-term or short-term contract with the insurance company, and he pays a certain sum or ‎sums of money monthly or annually, or even to pay all the money in cold cash to the insurance ‎company. In return, the insurer is obliged to pay his wife's dower when the contract comes to a ‎conclusion regarding the amount and size of the selected capital. 
%U https://sciarena.com/article/an-analysis-of-dower-insurance-in-iranian-legal-system