Tahmina Khojaeva is fighting to hang on to the newly refurbished apartment in Dushanbe where she and her husband are trying to raise their newborn twins. The problem is the other man, whom she describes as her former husband in a nearly four-year polygamous marriage. Thirty-five-year-old Khojaeva says she split from him two years ago, after she insisted she wanted to "start a family. But Khojaeva knows she cannot provide legal proof of her first "marriage," making it all but impossible to exercise any rights toward what she regards as her property. Tajik law stipulates hefty fines and up to two years of hard labor for offenders of the country's ban on polygamous marriages.