Court grants woman full ownership after sham property deal with ex
TDT | Manama
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Thirteen years after buying a plot of land with a bank loan and letting her then-husband appear as co-owner on paper to get a construction loan, a woman has been granted full ownership by the courts.
She had paid the entire amount from her own account, borrowed from the bank, and agreed with her ex-husband to name him as a joint buyer in the official sales contract.
Fifty-fifty
The aim was to qualify for housing support. The land was registered in both names, fifty-fifty.
They secured a construction loan from Eskan Bank and went on to build a house meant for married life.
Throughout, it was the woman who paid every instalment — month after month, year after year — from her own money.
Repayments
The repayments stretched over more than a decade. When the house was finished, he divorced her.
She later asked that the half-share listed in his name be transferred to her and recorded as such with the Survey and Land Registration Bureau. He refused. So she took the matter to court.
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