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[Kipling]

Some intersting news in this link.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/01/saudi-arabian-child-marriage-annulled

Mr K

[Stephen Jones]

The legal details were what made this case strange.

I personally felt the original judge who failed to grant a divorce was correct, in that the bride's mother had no locus standi to demand a divorce on her daughter's behalf (consider the can of worms that allowing this would open, and the outraged complaints about judge's divorcing couples because the family requested it, which has already happened in other cases).

The Guardian article is now talking about annullment. The problem of course is whether the original marriage could ever have been considered legal under Islamic law in the first case. And if it wasn't legal there couldn't be a divorce.