In the Old Testament, God allowed divorce as a concession due to the hardness of people's hearts. This was to provide a way out of difficult and broken marriages, but it was not the ideal or intended plan for marriage.
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No Islam does not allow a wife to have more than 1 husband. But if her husband dies or her husband gives divorce, she can marry with another muslim.
Wht was there reason for not letting him?
Sue him or take him to court
Many states allow stepparent visitation rights
yes, it does. many actresses divorce there.
if you have sole custody and he has visiting rights you need to find a modus operandi to allow him some visits, best solution is consentual
The assumption here is that a husband, in the process of a divorce, has filed for custody and the mother is countering it by claiming that he is not the father. She can do this.
You will have to show the court system that you have made every attempt to locate your spouse. Once you show them that you cannot locate them, they will allow a divorce to go through and most likely, you will be awarded anything you want.
GA allows for non-fault divorce, but they also allow for fault based divorce.
Well, you can debate this and put whatever sort of slant you want on it, but the bottom line is that in ancient Hebrew society essentially no woman would have sought a divorce anyway. Her father wouldn't have taken her back in and it would have been unlikely that she would have been able to find another husband. There were very few jobs open to women, so she would probably have been forced to become a prostitute.