This research work Titled?the practice of people of katsina stateon child custody after termination of marriage? endeavored to look into the situation of children after marriage separation, in order to present the Islamic rules and regulations of child custody, and to appraise the implications of negligence of a child after marriage termination - .etc. In order to attain the aforementioned goals, the researchadopted the descriptive statistical method distributed questionnaires, and made some personal observations. A total of our hundred and five (405) questionnaires were distributed in some selected local governments within the three political zones of Katsina State. Therefore, the selected local governments in Katsina Zone are; Katsina, Dutsin-ma and Kaita local governments.FromDaura Zone are; Daura, Mai'adua and Kankia local governments, From Funtua zone are; Funtua, Malumfashi and Musawa local governments areas. The questionnaire was distributed to four (4) categories of respondents i.e. Fathers, Mothers, Social Welfare Workers, and Court Workers. Three hundred and seventy seven out of the distributed questionnaires were successfully retrieved(377); the opinions of the respondents were gathered, analyzed and presented with the use of Frequency tables and percentages. More ever; the research concluded with a number of results, the most important of which include: - A divorce hurts all the family members, including the children. On the other hand,mothers are showing more concern on the child after separation, than fathers.- According to the Court in katsina state ?parents in broken homes are not performing their obligations towards their children as prescribed by theShari'ah. e.tc. Lastly;, the research recommends that, - Fathers, whose power of divorce is mostly at their hands, should be reminded of Allah's injunction on divorce and its potential negative consequences for themselves, their partners and their children in general 2- supreme council affairs in collaboration with government agencies should execute public punishment on any husband who divorced his wife and neglected the children without strong reasons, for it will serve as a deterrent to other parents.