Provides equal sustenance and equal treatment to all. And the husband should be able to take care of them financially and emotionally. A Muslim man does not require permission from the law, court, or his existing wife or wife to get himself a next marriage.
Article 55(6) of the Personal Status Law imposes a condition on the husband to ensure equitable treatment between his wives if he has more than one wife. Article 77 of the same Law prohibits the husband from asking his wife to live with his other wives in the same marital home, under one exception if she agrees to the same.
A woman who is entering into a marriage contract can include a stipulation in the contract, mentioning that she has the right to divorce if her husband enters into a polygamous marriage.
In a case appealed in Abu Dhabi, the judges found that polygamy does not constitute a ground for divorce if the husband is treating the wife well with kindness. Because of the growing cost of living in this current generation, people now do not encourage much for polygamy. And also woman’s now a day is not likely to accept the idea of sharing their partner with someone else. And also in raising the children, there is a high difficulty and expenses, so they always seek help from family lawyers to keep them safe financially.
Basically, polygamy is legal and is widely accepted in UAE whereas in today's situation the practical applicability of this is comparatively very low.
So polygamy is not illegal it is legally accepted in UAE, provided the man should treat his wives equally. It is a common culture and a religious practice in Arab countries. The practical applicability nowadays is being reduced when compared to a decade back. But the legality is nowhere changed. It is legally accepted in most Arab countries.
In India, polygamy is illegal for every religion except for Muslims. The people who follow Islamic religious practices are allowed with limited polygamy whereby a man is allowed to marry up to 4 wives. Whereas polyandry (i.e) a woman marrying more than one man is absolutely prohibited. The practice of polygamy was found prevalent in ancient times whereby it was never considered to be a compulsory practice. The Hindu culture as embedded in Vedas provides for a Hindu marriage is in-dissolvable in life, whereby polygamy is unbridled in the Hindu culture.
In the USA polygamy is considered to be illegal. When we consider Utah's law, a man is considered guilty not only for having two legal marriages but for living with another individual when he is legally married. Right now people who fraudulently obtain multiple marriage certificates are considered to be guilty in Utah.
Polygamy has been a long-standing practice among Muslims since time immemorial, and it has been altered to become a topic of personal laws, but Hindu religion practitioners cannot challenge the laws that criminalize monogamy among Hindus. As Martin Luther King, a wise man, put it, "Laws cannot change people's hearts, but they may restrict the callous."
