Bahrain court takes back property gifted to daughter for ill-treating father

TDT | Manama                                              

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com  

The High Sharia Court cancelled a deed given by an elderly Bahraini man to his daughter in a case that accused her of mistreating and harassing him. However, the man’s wife, who is also accused in the case, the Court said, could continue to keep her share in a house gifted to her and in which the daughter also had a right.

The defendant had requested the Court to cancel his wife’s right in the house for demanding divorce and refusing to stay with him. Court files say the man had gifted his wife and daughter a house in Busaiteen and the daughter a plot of land in Riffa in 2013.

However, after obtaining the property, the man told the judges that his wife and daughter stopped looking after him. He also claimed to face ill-treatment and harassment from his wife, who had also filed for a divorce.

The man said that he is physically unable to provide for himself due to difficulties related to old age. The wife and his daughter, he claimed, denied him all circumstances to lead a decent life befitting his age. The Court, in its ruling, viewed that the elderly parents can take back a share in their property given to their children as a gift if they fail to look after them or harasses them.

The Court, however, said it’s not permissible to revoke the deed given to the wife, according to Sharia law. The Court also ordered the defendants to pay the case expenses and attorney’s fees.