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    Question ID: 47020Country: United States of America

    Title: Child Custody

    Question: I have read that a mother has the custody right over the kids after divorce unless she marries. My question is if that mother married, but that husband divorced her before they lived together, is she still entitled to the custody now that she is divorced? The child has been always with the mother as per her dad consent.

    Answer ID: 47020

    Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Rahim !

    (Fatwa: 1089/842/D=9/1434) The detail regarding child custody for mother is that the son shall stay with his mother up to 7 years of age while the daughter up to 9 years of age provided the mother has not married someone else. If the mother marries someone else then her right of custody shall nullify. But if after marriage she is separated from her husband after talaq then she shall become eligible for custody and her custody right shall return again.

    Allah (Subhana Wa Ta'ala) knows Best

    Darul Ifta,

    Darul Uloom Deoband, India