Crazy Divorce News this Past Week: Tainan and Delhi Divorce Take Top Billings!
Divorce may be prompted by many circumstances, but the reasons stated in the two divorce cases this week are more than unusual. A Tainan court granted a 38-year-old man’s request for divorce because his wife would not consummate their relationship on their wedding night and during the ensuring year, while a Delhi divorce request by a man citing that his wife denied serving tea to his family members was not granted.
• A Tainan man was recently granted his wish: a divorce from his 29-year-old wife, whom he met through a matchmaker. The man surnamed Chen married a woman surnamed Lin a year ago, according to a story in the Taiwan Times. Lin allegedly refused to consummate the marriage on the wedding night and then returned to her mother’s house the following day saying that she was ill and would not live with her husband again.
According to the story, Lin signed a contract agreeing to consummate the marriage for procreation purposes, but demanded to sleep separately from her husband. Chen filed for divorce in July and Lin contested the request, saying that she was too ill on the wedding night to consummate the marriage. The judge said that is was strange for Lin to refuse to do so for a full year, and thus granted the divorce. Lin must now compensate her ex-husband for an apartment he purchased, a dowry he gave her family, and the embarrassment which ensued.
• The Delhi High Court denied a man’s request to divorce his wife after she did not serve his family tea, and called the request “frivolous,” according to a story in The Hindu. Narender Singh married his wife, Rekha, way back in 1980 and lived with her for eleven days before fulfilling his defense duty in Jammu and Kashmir, where he was stationed for most of the following 27 years! According to the story, Singh filed for divorce and claimed that his wife had insulted him when she refused to serve his maternal aunt and some friends tea when he was outside of Delhi.
After finally returning to Delhi, Singh’s request was denied. Specifically, the court ruled that his claims of his wife’s cruelty were based on heresay evidence from his family members when he was not even home. For such a ridiculous divorce petition, Singh was ordered to pay his wife a specific amount of money within four weeks.
