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Qatar: Divorce via SMS

Thursday, October 25th, 2007 @ 21:45 UTC

by Mohamed Nanabhay

Countries:: Qatar
Topics:: Religion, Technology

PeacefulMuslimah, who lives in Qatar, was just divorced via an SMS text message from her husband. She has: “lots of questions rattling around in my head but not a lot of answers…”

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[...] Emirats Arabes Unis, ont déja reconnu la validité de la séparation par le simple envoi de SMS (voir ici par exemple, en anglais). Singapour a décidé du contraire. Un cas est actuellement examiné par les tribunaux [...]

# 2008-08-8 at 10:26 am

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