- For Sunnis: A wife may request from her husband the following:
. To refrain from taking a second wife, in which case she or the other wife are considered divorcees
. To refrain from taking her out of her country
. To maintain an equal right to divorce (which means to be granted Al Isma, or the right to control the bond of marriage).

- For Shiites: A wife may request from her husband the following:
. To refrain from taking her out of her country
. To be his representative in divorcing herself.

- For the Druze: the Druze personal status law provides for the conditions that the contract must include. However it is agreed that any matter that is not established under a private text may be decided by the Druze Judge according to the Hanafi School.