What's your Opinion : Question by a Non-Muslim man about his recently converted wife?

Re: What's your Opinion : Question by a Non-Muslim man about his recently converted w

How does the wife converting to islam make the marriage invalid? I don't think so for two reasons:

1) By laws of the land, once a marriage is registered, only a formal divorce or annulment is the only way to cancel it. That has not happened in this case.

2) Even by muslim law (now, I am not an authority on this of course) my understanding is that the husband has maximum authority over wife - so if the husband has not converted then the assertion that the wife's conversion is invalid is more potent and valid than the claim that the marriage is invalid.