Question Summary:
Court divorce

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AsalamOalikum,

Answer :

In the Name of Allaah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

As-salaamu ‘alaykum wa-rahmatullaahi wa-barakaatuh.

Sister in Islaam,

In principle, a civil divorce does not constitute an Islaamic divorce (talaaq). The judge presides over the rulings and implications of a civil divorce. He does not have jurisdiction over a Shar’ee divorce (talaaq) and neither is that his mandate[1].

If your husband signed the civil divorce document and also intended a Shar’ee talaaq, then only talaaq will take place.

The example of a husband signing divorce papers to constitute talaaq with a husband issuing divorce without evidence is non analogous. In the former, he did not intend talaaq and in the latter, he intended talaaq.

And Allaah Ta’aala Knows Best.

Muajul I. Chowdhury

Student, Darul Iftaa

Astoria, New York, USA

Checked and Approved by,
Mufti Ebrahim Desai.

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