Does a divorce issued by the husband before a judge count, when he did not actually intend to end the marital relationship, and was under duress and threat of imprisonment, and is expiation (kaffara) due from him, knowing that the wife was pregnant at the time it occurred?

If a man is coerced into divorce by threats of physical or financial harm or imprisonment, his divorce does not take effect. If he did not utter the divorce but wrote it or signed it without intending divorce, then it is even more so that it does not take effect.

Marrying a second wife is permissible in Islamic law, and no one has the right to prevent it or coerce someone who desires it to divorce his first wife.

A woman should document her rights with her husband (such as a deferred Mahr), because after a civil divorce, she is no longer considered a wife in the eyes of the law.