What is the ruling on a woman who is fostering two young girls from a care home—who are not related to her by blood, but are foster sisters to her own daughters—marrying, while maintaining her fostering of them? And will her fostering of them be affected if she marries?
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"The legal effect of marriage on custody is deferred to legal experts. As for Islamic law, it is not permissible for the daughters' identification documents to be under your name as their mother if you are not, because this is a lie, forgery, and forbidden by Islamic law. Furthermore, it may lead to rulings that contradict . Therefore, this situation must be corrected."
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