Is it permissible for a husband to prevent his wife from visiting her children from her previous husband?

Question : A woman sent a question saying: I am a recently married woman with children from a previous husband. I have a final court ruling granting me visitation rights with my children two days a week. However, their father does not allow me to take them every time I go to their neighbor’s house. I told my current husband to ask me not to go to them, and that I am their mother, so I must be patient and not see my children. She asks, O Shaykh: If I obey my husband and do not seek to see or take my children, is this considered a sin and a severing of the family ties between me and my children? And if I disobey my husband and go to take my children, is this considered a sin because I disobeyed my husband?

Answer : It is obligatory for the husband to fear Allah the Exalted and Majestic regarding this woman he married, and not to deprive her of her children or deprive her children of her. Then we say: if it was stipulated in the marriage contract that he not prevent her from visiting her children, or not prevent her children from visiting her, then it is obligatory for him to fulfill this condition, based on the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):
As for if it was not stipulated, then we refer to the general custom. Whatever is established by custom is what is obligatory for this husband, based on the saying of Allah the Exalted: “And live with them in kindness,” and His saying: .
If the matter cannot be resolved, meaning if the husband does not comply and does not fear Allah the Exalted and Majestic regarding this woman, then the court is the one that rules between them, unless reconciliation is possible before reaching the court, in which case that is better.