Judgment details
- Court
- General Court, Al-Khurmah
- Outcome
- Upheld on appeal
- Year
- 1435H
- Area
- Family & Estates
- Official collection
- Collection of Judicial Rulings 1435H, Ministry of Justice (Research Center)
- Location
- Vol. 9 · p. 17
Summary
A wife sought annulment because of her husband's mental illness and ill-treatment; he denied it and missed the hearings, and a hospital report diagnosed schizophrenia. The court annulled the marriage in absentia without consideration, and the Court of Appeal approved it.
Principle
A medically proven mental illness causing harm allows the wife to seek annulment without consideration.
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