{"id":1539,"date":"2019-06-26T10:18:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T08:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2019-06-26T10:18:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T08:18:25","slug":"can-a-divorced-woman-change-her-childs-surname-from-her-ex-husbands-surname-to-her-surname","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1539","title":{"rendered":"Can a divorced woman change her child\u2019s surname from her ex-husbands surname to her surname?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Can a divorced woman change her child\u2019s surname from her ex-husbands surname to her surname?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. Can a divorced woman change her child\u2019s surname who has her ex-husbands surname to her surname due to spite or hate for her ex-husband? Can she do it for legal purposes? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> It is incorrect for an ex-wife to change her child\u2019s surname (her ex-husbands surname) to her family surname in order to distance and disassociate her child from the biological father. However, if an ex-wife changes her child\u2019s surname to her family surname for travelling or legal purposes and not to distance or disassociate her child from the biological father, then it would be permissible. <strong>(Fataawa Darul Uloom Zakariyyah 7\/562)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can a divorced woman change her child\u2019s surname from her ex-husbands surname to her surname?\u00a0 Q. Can a divorced woman change her child\u2019s surname who has<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laws-of-women","category-talaq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}