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Saudi Arabia Shari'a Court Rescinds Custody Rights of Father Who Demanded Money for Allowing Daughter to Marry
The Saudi Gazette reported that a Saudi man who demanded SR100,000 from his daughter in return for allowing her to marry has been disallowed custody rights by the General Shariah Court, according to the Al-Madina newspaper. The daughter, 35, who sued her father in court, said he had been turning away all the men who proposed to her until she came up with SR100,000. Her father listed for the court all the funds he had spent on raising her, and stressed that he simply did not want any relationship with his daughter or to see her after she pays him the stated amount and would relinquish custody of her. His daughter made it clear to the court she didn’t possess that amount of money. When the judge asked the father about the last man who proposed to his daughter, the man said, "I don’t care whether he is good or bad. I am more concerned about the money than who will marry her." In his verdict, the judge mentioned the father had no right to ask for the money he spent on his daughter because it was his obligation as a guardian, as decreed in the Koran. The judge will appoint her brother as guardian. The brother told the judge his father had kicked him out of the house, along with his two other sisters, for the same reasons – even though his father is well-off. Source: Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia, January 19, 2007
Posted at: 2007-01-19
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