1,669. A Husband's Investment in His Wife's Property

Hilchos Ishus 23:7

If a man makes a condition after the marriage has been finalized that he will have no say regarding his wife’s property, neither the proceeds generated by that property nor any residual proceeds generated in her lifetime, then he is not entitled to any proceeds generated by this property after she dies but he does inherit her, as we have explained.

Hilchos Ishus 23:8

Let’s say that a husband spends money on his wife’s melug property. Whether he spent a little and received much benefit in return, or spent a lot and received little benefit, what he spent was he spent and what he received was received (i.e., we make no adjustments based on the size of his investment vis-à-vis his returns). This is so even if he ate only one dried fig formally, a dinar’s worth of produce casually, or took no produce at all, just a bundle of sticks.