On February 4, 2021, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals, in the unreported opinion of Chaudry v. Chaudry, affirmed that a mehr signed by the parties at the time of their marriage was not an enforceable contract. The parties married in an Islamic marriage ceremony in 2004 in … Read More about Case Update (2021): Chaudry v. Chaudry; Islamic marriage contract and burden to prove terms before enforcing
Case Update (2020): Federbush v. Shah; Simultaneous Divorce Actions, Forum Non Conveniens
In a March 2, 2020 opinion by the Supreme Court in New York County in Federbush v. Shah (2020 NY Slip Op 50300(U)), the court addressed a multi-jurisdictional divorce suit between a couple that had married in Thailand 8 years earlier. The couple had signed a prenuptial agreement on the same … Read More about Case Update (2020): Federbush v. Shah; Simultaneous Divorce Actions, Forum Non Conveniens
Case Update (2020): Nouri v. Dadgar; Religious Marriage Contracts – Enforceability of Mahr
Maryland's Court of Special Appeals (its intermediate appellate court) issued an opinion on April 7, 2020 that addressed the issue of the enforceability of Islamic marriage contracts in two separate, yet consolidated, cases.Nouri v. Dadgar and Ghazirad v. Mojarrad set forth the premise that … Read More about Case Update (2020): Nouri v. Dadgar; Religious Marriage Contracts – Enforceability of Mahr