Divorce in Iraq..a rise in cases and suffering in procedures

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[size=52]Divorce in Iraq..a rise in cases and suffering in procedures[/size]

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Iraq records thousands of divorce cases per month
[size=45]She married the Iraqi, Lamia, at the age of 17 after “a love affair that lasted for a year,” but after a few months of marriage and the effect of the divorce, Lamia says.[/size]
[size=45]Lamia told Al-Hurra, "I was subjected to violence, whether verbal or sometimes physical, so I asked for a divorce."[/size]
[size=45]Lamia has a two-year-old girl, who is currently living in her mother's house, where the child's father plays his role "financially to support his daughter despite his marriage to another woman three months after the divorce" from Lamia.[/size]
[size=45]Lamia is one of thousands of Iraqi women who have ended up getting divorced and ending their married life for various reasons.[/size]
[size=45]And Iraqi courts recorded more than 6000 divorce cases last March, according [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.][/size]
[size=45]More than 4,000 of these cases were out of court, which were later certified.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, Iraqi courts recorded about 31,000 marriages in the same month, which means that divorce cases amounted to nearly 20 percent of all marriages.[/size]

Divorce Procedures

[size=45]Lamia's divorce took place inside the court, but Bushra, an Iraqi woman, was divorced by her husband without the court's approval.[/size]
[size=45]Bushra told Al-Hurra website that she married for the second time at the age of 33 to a man a little older than her, but "after two years of marriage, her husband abandoned her completely, and he called her after a while saying that he divorced her."[/size]
[size=45]Bushra did not receive any paper proving her husband's divorce, so she had to appoint a lawyer. It took a year for her to obtain a divorce certified by the courts.[/size]
[size=45]Lawyer Nasser Al-Kinani says that "some married couples resort to this method to avoid paying the wife's legal rights."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Kinani added to the "Al-Hurra" website that "divorce cases are widespread and unprecedented, and there is a tangible increase that we see every period," stressing, "Last November, the number of monthly divorce cases exceeded 9 thousand."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Kinani criticizes the Iraqi statistical system, which does not publish information about the age of the spouses, their economic status, the duration of the marriage, and other information necessary to “understand the reason for the increase in this phenomenon.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Kinani says that married couples "are subjected to severe pressures during the period of preparation for marriage, economic and social pressures that will later cast a shadow on the already fragile marriage."[/size]
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Married couples “are subjected to severe pressures during the preparation period for marriage, economic pressures.”

Reasons for divorce

[size=45]And  [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]  quoted Judge Baida Kazem as saying that the reasons for the occurrence of divorce or separation lawsuits are different, “including separation for desertion, separation for lack of spending, or separation due to illness or illegal practices.”[/size]
[size=45]While the judge in the Karkh Status Court, Nour Adnan Mahmoud, attributes the reasons for the rise in divorce cases to “the openness that Iraq has witnessed in recent years (..), especially when the mobile phone, which some people misuse (…), we see that most of the problems are due to Marital infidelity or illicit relations. ?[/size]
[size=45]The website also quotes the social researcher, Wiam Hatem Jaafar, as saying that one of the reasons for divorce is “shared housing with the family and an increase in the number of its members, which leads to problems up to divorce,” without forgetting the “poor economic conditions,” which is considered one of the the most important reasons. ?[/size]
[size=45]The researcher quoted the story of a girl who married a young man who asked her to also be a “wife to his brothers,” noting that the girl was drugged “and found her husband’s brother in her bed in the morning,” then she was prevented from using the phone until she managed to escape with difficulty.[/size]
[size=45]Lawyer Saeed Murtada agrees with researcher Wiam Jaafar by focusing on the “deteriorating economic conditions,” noting that “the nature of society makes marriage an automatic act that requires men and women to do it even if their circumstances are not appropriate.”[/size]
[size=45]We do not have statistics on the most common causes of divorce, Mortada told Al-Hurra, but I can be certain that economic conditions play a role in more than 70 percent of divorce cases.[/size]
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