When woman is allowed to ask divorce?

[Balthier]

Re: When woman is allowed to ask divorce?

@PyariCgudia

You always have a right to take the husband to court if he tries to divorce you by uttering it 3x. You can always take him to court and have the court review his actions, and your rights to your mehr, and you will end up going to court anyway for settling assets and children custody, etc. I don’t know where you think that a divorce if given by a man doesn’t need to go to court. She can always serve him papers; he will need to appear. Yes, even in an Islamic system.

Yes, but thats the problem. Any legal procedure needs to be initiated by the woman. She must ask for divorce, and she must drag him to court if she is treated unfairly, while the man can just utter talaaq three times and take a new wife the same evening, all within the legal framework, and societal approval (even if its frowned upon, ultimately the society must accept that nothing illegal occured). The rights of women is not protected in this manner.

There should be no room for oral divorce whatsoever, all divorce cases should be subject to a due processs, whether its the husband or the wife filing for divorce. Both should have equal rights and responsibilites when filing for divorce.

The tradition with oral divorce is completely broken, as is the system with women not being able to file for divorce on equal footing as men. We see these systems being misused time after time again, whether in Pakistan, India or even the UK.

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Basically it creates an environment where women struggle to get out of unhappy (sometimes violent) marital relationships, while the man can utter talaaq three times through skype or whatsapp, and get it done with. Then we can all argue which one of them is following the system correctly, and which ones are not.

We must dare to challenge such syatems, and call them out for being broken, prone to misuse, and thus in dire need of review and reform.