Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari

Unpaid Dowry (mahr) at the Time of Divorce

I had a question. I know of a sister who married a brother who turned out to be totally different then who he presented himself to be. He was not religious, and the sister has good reason to suspect that he had an affair. They have been married for a short while, and though they were intimate, they did not have intercourse. She wants to give him a divorce, and she knows that he is not interested in staying married, but he won’t give her a divorce (she feels because of paying the maher). I...