The Mahr is the Wife's Property

Question: Is it permissible for a stepmother to take something from the mahr of her husband's daughters from another woman, if she is the one who raised and cared for them, and this is with their consent and the consent of their father? Or does she have no right to take anything from it?

Answer: There is nothing wrong with her taking something that her husband's daughters have permitted from another woman, because the mahr is the property of the wife. So if she permits something of it to her stepmother, or to someone else, there is nothing wrong with that. Even if she permits something of it to her husband, there is nothing wrong with that.because of His saying, the Exalted: [Surat al-Nisa: 4], so the mahr is the property of the wife, and she may give her stepmother or anyone else from it.