Bahrain court orders woman to vacate ex-husband's house

TDT | Manama

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

A woman who secured a divorce from her husband but continued to live in her ex-husband's house will have to vacate it now as per a court order.

A Bahraini court has ordered her to hand it over to its rightful owner in a petition filed by her ex-husband. The High Civil Court ruled that the woman forsook her legal right to stay in the house when she secured the divorce.

The court, however, allowed the woman to keep two cars the husband sought to return, citing that the husband had waived his rights on the cars by registering them in her name.

The court also allowed the woman to keep the furniture in the house for herself. The orders came in a case filed by the woman's ex-husband, seeking to return the house and two cars he gave after the woman secured a divorce from him.

The ex-husband also told the court that he was paying the EMIs on the cars registered in his ex-wife's name. "She demanded a divorce and received it, but is still staying in our house and also took two cars which I had to register in her name in special circumstances," the man told the judges at the High Civil Court.

The court ruled that the woman should move out of the house "since it is she who moved the court seeking a divorce from her husband." "Now, the marriage is no longer valid." "The High Shariat Court didn't see any reason for the woman continuing to stay in the house, and therefore the High Civil Court rules in favour of the plaintiff and orders her to leave the house," the High Civil Court said in its ruling.

As for the two cars, the court said the two waiver declarations signed by the plaintiff void his rights to claim the vehicles. The registration documents in the woman's names strongly prove that the man voluntarily handed over the cars to her.