Living with a divorced woman

Question: I have an older brother who married a woman and had children with her. A disagreement arose between him and his wife, and he divorced her. Then he married a second woman, different from the first, and asked that his children from his first wife live with him in his house and with his second wife. Their mother refused to leave them, so they all lived in their father’s house, and she was divorced from him. She is now living with him in the same house as his second wife. Is there any problem with this, or not?

Answer: It is not permissible for her to live in the house of a man who has divorced her, especially when he enters this house, and when others who are not her mahram (close relatives) enter it.
However, if she has a separate house for herself and her children, and the divorced husband does not have any residence attached to it, does not enter it, and does not live with them, then there is no harm in that. But as long as she remains in the marital home while divorced, as if she were still his wife, and he enters her room and does similar things that are part of the marital relationship, this is not permissible for her. She must distance herself from him and be in a separate house where no fitnah (trial or temptation) or danger occurs.

Question: Does this ruling apply if the divorce is final, or even if it is a revocable divorce?

Answer: It appears from her question that it is a final divorce. However, if the divorce is less than three, and she is in the waiting period, she remains in his house.And she lives with him, as Allah the Exalted said: [Al-Talaq: 1] This applies to the woman with a revocable divorce as long as she is in the waiting period. As for the woman with a final divorce, she has no right to reside there and does not remain in the marital home after the divorce.