What should a wife do if her husband adopted a child and registered him in court as his son, and then the husband died, knowing that changing lineage in Iraq is very difficult?
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Adoption is forbidden in Islam. Whoever is able to change this situation must do so. The wife, if she exerts effort and establishes proof that the child is not her husband's biological son, will succeed, God willing.
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