Saudi Man Divorces Wife By Text – And It’s Legal

A Saudi man has set a legal precedent by divorcing his wife by text message. The man was in Iraq when he sent the SMS informing her she was no longer his spouse.

Saudi Arabia practises a strict form of Islamic Sharia law, under which the law a man can divorce his wife by simply saying “I divorce you” three times.

He followed up with a telephone call to two of his relatives to confirm the split.

A court in the Red Sea city of Jeddah finalised the split – the first known divorce in Saudi Arabia by text message – after summoning the two relatives to check they had received word of the husband’s intention, the paper said.

Source: The Telegraph

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