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Fatwa: 38831
divorce my wife only in papers and marry another wife

الاستفتاء

I am living in Sweden and with my wife and kids and we are not very happy in our marital life. I am thinking of marrying a second wife due to the welfare of my kids and I don’t want to divorce of my first wife. The law in Sweden doesn’t allow you to have two registered wives so I was wondering if it’s allowed to divorce your wife only in papers and marry another wife. Will this divorce filed in government documents also be counted as a divorce in Islam?

الجواب حامدا و مصلیا

If the questioner’s statement is true, then before filing the divorce documents, he should make two people his witnesses that he is only filing these documents because he is compelled to do so by the law, and he doesn’t actually intend to divorce his wife through these documents. He should also not give any verbal divorce to his wife. Afterwards, signing the divorce documents will not cause divorce to occur. He will still be married to his wife as per Shari’ah, even though she will not be his wife according to legal documents.

And Allah knows best
محمد شاہد عظمت
May Allah Forgive him,
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