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Does a husband who divorced his pregnant wife, and she then gave birth and breastfed their child and another child who is not his, become the father of the other child whom his divorced wife breastfed, in his capacity as the owner of the milk, and is he truly the owner of the milk after her waiting period ended with childbirth?

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The infant becomes a child by fosterage to the woman who breastfed him and to her husband, even if she was divorced from him while pregnant. The woman remaining married to her husband is not a condition for fosterage to be established. It is a condition for the prohibition to be established that there be five breastfeedings.

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