Wedding trouble as UK Muslim marriages not recognised
A growing number of young Muslims in the UK are entering marriages that are not legally recognised, BBC Asian Network has found. This is because couples are having an Islamic wedding without the civil ceremony needed for the marriage to be recognised under British law…
A few months later she came home and found that the locks to her front door had been changed and that she had been thrown out of her home.
“I was homeless. I took legal action but I got nothing,” explained Shaheeda. “I had been paying the mortgage on our home but the house was not in my name so I lost everything.”