{"id":498,"date":"2007-08-14T21:00:25","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/08\/14\/couple-dissolves-marriage-after-wife-embraces-islam\/"},"modified":"2007-08-14T21:00:25","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T13:00:25","slug":"couple-dissolves-marriage-after-wife-embraces-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/08\/14\/couple-dissolves-marriage-after-wife-embraces-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple dissolves marriage after wife embraces Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>problem is, is the divorce via syariah court binding on the non-muslim couple and does the court has the authority? notice that the husband had filed for divorce in civil court on his behalf. of course he won&#39;t want to be caught committing bigamy if he marries again, if the registration dept does not acknowledge the syariah courts ruling. <\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>thus, the couple have to divorce twice \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>anyway, this was a &quot;happy&quot; divorce; not one filled with children custody claims and forced conversion of children, plus the lady is the one who converted.<\/p>\n<p>Couple dissolves marriage after wife embraces Islam <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/8\/14\/nation\/20070814175304&amp;sec=nation\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By M. MAGESWARI<\/p>\n<p>PETALING JAYA: A teacher and a hotel manager became the first couple in the country to dissolve their marriage amicably through the Syariah lower court after she embraced Islam.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Today, Aishah Sandhera Abdullah @ Sandhera Debbie Kimbi, 27, from Sibu, Sarawak, applied to the Syariah lower court here to dissolve her marriage because of the change of religion.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She made her application under Section 46(2) of the Islamic Family Law Enactment (Selangor) 2003.  <\/p>\n<p>The court granted the application to dissolve the marriage.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In confirming the dissolution of the marriage for her, Syariah court judge Ghazali Ahmad praised the couple for settling the matter good-naturedly.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>According to the statement of claim, Aishah, who is the plaintiff, had married Reynolds Chua Guan Teck, 28, on May 5, 2004.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The marriage was registered under the Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act 1976 as both were Christians during the period. The couple has no children.  <\/p>\n<p>Aishah converted to Islam on Feb 2 while the defendant was still a Christian. <\/p>\n<p>The couple then could not live together under Islamic law because of the difference in religions. <\/p>\n<p>She filed the summons and statement of claim on Aug 1 for the dissolution of the marriage.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The defendant had filed a divorce petition on July 20 at the Shah Alam High Court (civil) under the Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act. <\/p>\n<p>The Shah Alam Court has not set a date to hear the divorce matter.  <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters later, Aishah&#39;s lawyer Zainul Rijal Abu Bakar said the case set a precedent for couples to dissolve their marriages amicably when one party converts to Islam. <\/p>\n<p>He said such settlements should be encouraged as it resulted in a win-win situation for both.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Aishah informed Ghazali that she would attend the divorce case proceeding for Chua at the Shah Alam High Court. <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>problem is, is the divorce via syariah court binding on the non-muslim couple and does the court has the authority? notice that the husband had filed for divorce in civil court on his behalf. of course he won&#39;t want to be caught committing bigamy if he marries again, if the registration dept does not acknowledge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[92,24,278,302,147],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-conversion","tag-mic","tag-ngo","tag-religion","tag-selangor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}