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April 11, 2016

Saudi judge, wife's uncles force couple to divorce

"A Saudi judge sided with a pregnant woman’s uncles and divorced the wife from her husband on the grounds she is of superior origin. Maha Al Tamimi, in her 8th month pregnancy ... said her uncles filed a law suit to divorce her from her husband, a soldier stationed in South Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen, on the grounds she married him without her father’s approval.

"But Tamimi said she had her elder brother’s consent for marriage and that her father has a second wife and is not living with them. ... Tamimi said she had taken her father to court long time ago because he had rejected all her suitors and mistreated her.

 

Pregnant woman forced to divorce

Wife appeals Saudi King for help

Posted by on April 11, 2016 in Divorce, Marriage, MIddle East |

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