Court rejects man’s case to compel wife and son to live in GCC state

TDT | Manama                           

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com   

The Lower Sharia Court rejected a lawsuit filed by a father who demanded that his wife be compelled to move with their son to live in a GCC state, forfeiting her right to custody of the child in the event that she declined.

The child is currently best served by being with his mother, especially at his young age, as the court stated that it places the child’s best interests above all other considerations.

As a result, the plaintiff’s request was denied by the court. Lawyer Salman Al Dosari said that his client married the plaintiff and bore him a child while the family lived in a Gulf country more than three years ago; however, his client returned to her native country, the Kingdom of Bahrain, due to harm that was done to her, without the husband objecting or requesting custody of the son.

Only after more than three years did a request to drop the client’s custody come from the grandmother on the father’s side. The court said in its ruling that given what was presented for examination and its innate conviction that gives priority to the interest of the child above all other considerations, it ruled in favour of the mother’s custody for the time being, especially due to the child’s young age, thereby rejecting the plaintiff’s request.