AN angry wife who wanted babies and more cash to spend has lost her bid to divorce her husband after she failed to prove he had mistreated her during five years of marriage.
The 29-year-old Bahraini said she was enduring a ‘life in hell’ and could no longer tolerate her man who she claimed was allegedly abusive and stingy.
She filed a case at the Jaffari Sharia Court, which was rejected after lawyer Shazlan Khamis, representing her husband, successfully argued that there was no evidence to prove that her 33-year-old client had mistreated his wife.
She has also claimed that her husband refused to put her in the family way and kept ‘making excuses’ for not wanting children.
“The couple has been married since 2015 and the woman said she could no longer bear to live with her husband because he was mistreating her,” read the court ruling. “She refused to settle the arguments with her husband and went ahead with filing a case in court.
“She said that her husband did not spend money on her for five years because he is stingy. She also claimed that he did not want to have children with her for ‘baseless reasons’.
“In addition she told the court that he did not provide adequate accommodation for her.” However, the court did not see any evidence to prove that life between them had become unbearable.
“The court cannot order the couple to divorce, without the presentation of any evidence to prove that the husband had been mistreating his wife.”
Earlier, the woman said she could no longer tolerate life with her husband. “I cannot go on living with him,” she told judges. “I am living in hell, he doesn’t spend money on me and is stingy. I could no longer live with him.
“In addition he does not want to have any children, which is not fair. Life with him has become unbearable.”
Ms Khamis said that the court cannot order a couple to divorce each other, just based on one side’s unsubstantiated statements and allegations. “If there is no evidence, there is no case,” she told the GDN. “How can the court trust her without her presenting any tangible evidence? My client denied what she had said and does not want to divorce her.”
It is not known if the couple will be undergoing marriage counselling.
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