Time to Start the Waiting Period

Question
A woman whose husband has passed away and who has been separated from him for about a year, does she have to observe a waiting period?
Answer
I say, and with God's success: She observes the waiting period of widowhood from the time of death as long as she is a wife and has not been divorced, and God knows best.
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