Bahrain court rejects case filed by woman against husband

TDT | Manama

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The High Commercial Court rejected a case filed by a woman against her husband, demanding the custodianship of their children and pocket money.

Despite the continuation of the marriage and the absence of divorce, the Arab woman filed a lawsuit in which she demanded from her Bahraini husband to get custody of her two children and pay alimony for her and child support.

She claims that he did not pay alimony, but the expert commissioned by the court confirmed that the defendant had fulfilled his commitment to the plaintiff’s expenses and housing in proportion to his source of income.

The expert confirmed that the married couple’s apartment fulfils its purpose, even if it is at its lowest level; therefore, the court ruled to reject the case.

The husband’s lawyer, Nafeesa Daabal, said that he was surprised by his wife, who still lives with him in an apartment at his father’s house when she filed a lawsuit against him demanding the custody of their two children and a provision for alimony for her and financial support for the two children.

This is because the divorce did not occur, and she was residing in the marital home during the handling of the lawsuit.

The wife claimed that her husband refused to support her and her two children and that he did not provide her with housing except for a room in his father’s house.

She demanded custody of the boy and girl because they are of nursery age and wanted to oblige her husband to pay her a monthly allowance of BD300 and the same amount for clothing for the two Eids.

The lawyer clarified that her client is a government employee and has been married to the plaintiff since 2013, and they had a daughter in 2015 and a son in 2017.