Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Autumn 2018 #173Mrs Akhter (A) and Mr Khan (K) underwent an Islamic marriage ceremony in England in 1998. They then considered themselves husband and wife and were treated as such by their families, community and state authorities. They had four children. Despite requests by A no civil ceremony was ever undertaken. The parties lived in Dubai between 2005 and 2011 and were treated as married by the UAE authorities, to whom they presented their Islamic marriage certificate.
A petitioned for divorce in 2016. K applied to strike out the petition on the basis that the parties had not entered a valid m...
Rebecca Huxford outlines the courts’ approach to validity of marriage and when there may be a ‘non-marriage’ ‘Where there has been nothing that could even be considered a ceremony or a purported marriage that this will not give rise to an entitlement to a decree of divorce or nullity.’Family lawyers are generally only consulted at …
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