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This is my first experience with a Muta that has lasted 4 months. What rights do I have? Is the man responsible for any bills or maintenance? In this temporary marriage, does he need to pray with me, and is it acceptable if I want to end it?
Zaid Alsalami

Bismihi ta'āla

There are no obligations or responsibilities he has towards you, and no obligations or responsibilities you have to him. No rights as well, other than him giving you the mahr you agreed upon. 

You can end it, only by him freeing you for the remaining period, so one must make sure they do not make the mistake of making the time-period too long, and do this only for the sake of it becoming a permanent marriage.

And Allah knows best
According to Ayatullah Sistani’s ruling, is it permissible for a man and woman to pray together without the required distance if one is performing obligatorily prayer and the other is performing a recommended prayer?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Man and woman should not pray together on the same line. She is not allowed to pray ahead of him even if she was a Mahram for him.

She should be during prayers behind him that her place of Sojood (prostration) should not be ahead of the place of his knees during his Sojood.

Wassalam.
What is the required distance between a man and a woman when they perform an obligatory prayer in the same room or place?
Zaid Alsalami

Bismihi ta'āla

If there is no barrier between the man and woman, the woman (even if she is mahram) must stand behind the man, such that her place of sajdah be behind where the knees of the man would be when he does sujud.  

And Allah knows best
What is the ruling on marriage for an unmarried young man who commits adultery with a married woman?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Any man who commits the major sin of fornication with a married woman will be forbidden from marrying her for all his life. He can marry with another woman if she agrees but not that woman with whom he committed the crime of fornication while she was married even if she is now divorced or widow.

Wassalam.