Nice try changing the subject. The PP was walking about child custody. It's irrelevant that a handful of kids live with their moms at the mercy of their fathers. The difference is the legal right of the legal spouse. The AP have zero legal rights. And no, the only legal marriage in the US is between TWO and only TWO people. BTW, can gay people get married in the Middle East? And don't forget that women were not allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia prior to 2018. They couldn't even vote prior to 2011. |
Saudi Arabia isn't the UAE. No more so than Mexico being the same as the US. Just bevcause they share geography, as the US/MExico and UAE/KSA do, does not mean the countries are similar. |
No that’s not true at all. It’s more common among the rich but middle class men marry several women too, and so do the very religious ones. Older women or career women sign up for the deal too when they don’t want a regular marriage. Gulf Arabs are normal but they are shaped by a society where men are allowed everything and women almost nothing. |
OK, so in the UAE: Women can't vote, drive, own property, work, and get an education without approval from their guardian. A judge determines whether a married woman is permitted to leave the house and to work. Men have the right to unilaterally divorce their wives, however a woman must apply for a court order to obtain a divorce. Women must get permission from their male guardian to get married. Until last year, there was no domestic violence law and women couldn't obtain restraining orders against abusers. Male guardians are allowed to discipline (including physically) their wives, female relatives, and children, as long as the violence marks are not visible. Marital rape is not a crime. Until last year, men were entitled to lighter sentences for killing a female relative if they found them in the act of extramarital sex. Until last year, it was legal for the murderer to get no punishment in exchange for payment to the killed woman aka "blood money" Until last year, “honor” killing of women was punishable with a month in prison. Homosexuality is illegal in the UAE, and is punishable by death penalty. Just like in the US, right?! All the crimes above are totally on par with a middle-age sex starved H who has a ONS on a business trip. |
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The ex-husband in question is a mentally ill, control-freak misogynist, who has kidnapped some of his daughters who tried to escape his clutches. I will not criticize any female relative of his who tries to escape from him and makes off with some of his millions, because they will need every protection they can get. They might end up murdered. |
I agree. |
Princess Haya knew the ways of the Royal family of Dubai before she got married. She also had an affair with her bodyguard on top of her original money hungry decision. I have no sympathy for her. |
Was her H monogamous? |
See the Penal Code and the Personal Status Law. See Sharia Courts for the payment of "blood" money to the remaining family in the event of a woman's killing. It's so sad that a European living in the US has the sources and you don't. Should we also add another doozy from Article 76? "1. The husband may accommodate, with his wife, in the conjugal domicile, his parents and children from another woman as long as he is financially in charge of them but provided no prejudice is caused to the wife from such accommodation. 2. The wife may not accommodate with her in the conjugal domicile her children from another man unless they have no other caretaker, they may be harmed from separation or by express or implied agreement of the husband, provided he has the right to go back on his acceptance should he sustain a prejudice therefrom." |
He had multiple wives when she married him. They were a part of the package. |
She married him just as he was. None of that was a surprise. The money outshone his personal flaws. It was always about the money. |
| NP. Who cares what her motivations were to marry him? She isn’t his property. |
No one said she is. She isn’t his victim either. She was always in it for the hustle. |
So she can have multiple partners too. Heck, why not multiple husbands?! |