What is your perspective on divorce in this situation? If a husband has filed for legal divorce in court and remains firm in his intention to separate but intentionally prevents his wife from obtaining a religious divorce, can the wife interpret the husband's legal filing as consent for a religious divorce? My sister has been dealing with this issue for almost a year, where her husband is being unreasonable and unjustly exploiting the rights granted to men by Allah.
What is your perspective on divorce in this situation? If a husband has filed for legal divorce in court and remains firm in his intention to separate but intentionally prevents his wife from obtaining a religious divorce, can the wife interpret the husband's legal filing as consent for a religious divorce? My sister has been dealing with this issue for almost a year, where her husband is being unreasonable and unjustly exploiting the rights granted to men by Allah.

‏In the name of Allah 
1. If the legal divorce had the Islamic conditions of divorce then it is valid .
2. If  the legal divorce had not the Islamic conditions of divorce then it is not valid then this woman can refer to a religious leader (Grand Ayatollah ) and ask him to do the divorce for her or to refer to an Islamic Court to do this for her.

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