How can one deal with a wife whose four-year-old daughter claims that her mother committed indecency with a strange man in her aunt's house, and the wife refuses to return to the marital home except under exorbitant financial conditions, and threatens to take the daughters and escalate the matter to the courts? What is the most appropriate solution in this case? Is it divorce, and what will be the fate of the four daughters given the inability to pay the required amount to relinquish custody?
The husband should divorce his wife if her condition is as described. He is permitted to refrain from divorcing her and make things difficult for her until she relinquishes her mahr (dowry) or a part of it. As for the custody of the daughters, the wife has no right to it if her depravity is proven, and the Sharia court will rule on this matter.
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