05-08-2008
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Fear my squirrelly wrath!!!!
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Member Since: Jul 2004
Location: Central Florida
Posts: 27,073
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Welcome to America, Mr. Aleem
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Saying "I divorce thee" three times, as men in Muslim countries have been able to do for centuries when leaving their wives, is not enough if you're a resident of Maryland, the state's highest court ruled yesterday.
Yesterday, the Court of Appeals rejected a Pakistani man's argument that his invocation of the Islamic talaq, under which a marriage is dissolved simply by the husband's say-so, allowed him to part with his wife of more than 20 years and deny her a share of his $2 million estate.
The justices affirmed a lower court's decision overturning a divorce decree obtained in Pakistan by Irfan Aleem, a World Bank economist who moved from London to Maryland with his wife, Farah Aleem, in 1985.
Both of their children were born in the United States.
In 2003, Aleem's wife filed for divorce in Montgomery County Circuit Court.
When he filed a counterclaim, he did not object to the court's jurisdiction over the case, according to the ruling. But before the legal process could be completed - and without telling his wife - Aleem went to the Pakistani Embassy in Washington and invoked the talaq, in effect attempting to turn jurisdiction of the case over to a Pakistani court that later granted him a divorce.
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Court denies Islamic divorce -- -- baltimoresun.com
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Seems to me the Court's ruling here is absolutely just and correct.
Mr. Aleem attempted to circumvent the legal system in the US by invoking Sharia law. He might have had more success with "Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!"....
Matt
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