ENACTMENT NO. 1 OF 1983 ISLAMIC FAMILY LAW ENACTMENT 1983
PART V - MAINTENANCE OF WIFE, CHILDREN AND OTHERS
Section 57. Recovery of arrears of maintenance.
(1) Subject to subsection (3), arrears of unsecured maintenance, whether payable by agreement or under an order of Court, shall be recoverable as a debt from the defaulter and, where they accrued due before the making of a receiving order against the defaulter, shall be provable in his or her bankruptcy and, where they accrued due before his or her death, shall be a debt due from his or her estate.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), arrears of unsecured maintenance which accrued due before the death of the person entitled thereto shall be recoverable as a debt by the legal personal representatives of such person.
(3) No amount owing as maintenance shall be recoverable in any suit if it accrued due more than three years before the institution of the suit.