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Texas Supreme Court rejects sharia divorce.
Posted on 9/26/26 at 12:28 pm
Posted on 9/26/26 at 12:28 pm
Thank God.
What’s really insane is that a lower court agreed with it.
What’s really insane is that a lower court agreed with it.
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The case involves Hira Azhar and Mohammad Ali Choudhri, a Houston couple who accumulated more than $100 million in community assets during their marriage. According to the court, Choudhri had lived in Houston since he was three years old before traveling to Pakistan, where he married Azhar in 2008 through an arranged marriage. Azhar moved to Houston in 2010 after obtaining a visa.
In 2012, Choudhri sent Azhar back to Pakistan, ostensibly to renew her visa. The following year, however, he obtained a divorce without her knowledge through a proceeding known as “talaq.” Under the procedure described by the court, a husband can initiate a divorce by pronouncing his intent to divorce his wife three times. The wife does not have to be present or even aware of the pronouncements and cannot object to the talaq.
Azhar received no direct notice of the divorce proceedings. Instead, Choudhri purported to provide notice through an advertisement published in a small Pakistani newspaper five days beforehand. She did not see the notice and did not learn she had been divorced until two years later.
After returning to Houston in 2015, Azhar filed for divorce in Harris County and sought a division of the couple’s marital property.
A Harris County court recognized the Pakistani proceedings under the legal doctrine of international comity and dismissed her divorce petition. The court also denied her claim for division of the marital estate.
Posted on 9/26/26 at 12:31 pm to TrueTiger
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What’s really insane is that a lower court agreed with it.
I think people are going to be confused and think this was a divorce in the US
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and in early 2013, he divorced her without her knowledge via a unilateral Islamic talaq proceeding in Pakistan.
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The Supreme Court of Texas reviewed the case and reversed the lower courts’ decisions. It held that the notice provided to the wife—five days of publication in a small Pakistani newspaper—was constitutionally inadequate when the husband could have easily provided direct notice.
Has nothing to do with "Sharia law"
Posted on 9/26/26 at 12:37 pm to TrueTiger
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Choudhri sent Azhar back to Pakistan, ostensibly to renew her visa. The following year, however, he obtained a divorce without her knowledge
This actually made me laugh
Posted on 9/26/26 at 12:42 pm to SlowFlowPro
The biggest issue is that it took thirteen YEARS here, in the US, to straighten that shite out, and it still isn't finished.
Posted on 9/26/26 at 12:52 pm to SlowFlowPro
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Has nothing to do with "Sharia law"
Talaq is not under Sharia Law? I truly have no clue.
Posted on 9/26/26 at 12:53 pm to LSUthrilla
It's a method of divorce in Pakistan, which is all that matters. A method, that doesn't give proper notice for Texas law.
Posted on 9/26/26 at 12:55 pm to TrueTiger
US law for all, or simply get the frick out.
Posted on 9/26/26 at 12:57 pm to TrueTiger
Common sense rules. Amazing.
While I don't like to see men who accumulate wealth before marriage taken to the cleaners, dude was a chickenshit.
While I don't like to see men who accumulate wealth before marriage taken to the cleaners, dude was a chickenshit.
Posted on 9/26/26 at 1:00 pm to BigTigerJoe
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US law for all,
The entire world?
Posted on 9/26/26 at 1:01 pm to BigTigerJoe
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US law for all, or simply get the frick out.
Exactly.
A strong message needs to be sent that if you come here you need to assimilate.
If you prefer your shithole system then stay where you are.
Posted on 9/26/26 at 1:07 pm to LSUthrilla
quote:surely you get his point
Talaq is not under Sharia Law? I truly have no clue.
Posted on 9/26/26 at 1:08 pm to faraway
The misleading OP is going to confuse a lot of people who think this divorce occurred IN Texas
Posted on 9/26/26 at 1:09 pm to BigTigerJoe
Using SFP logic on comity, All I have to do regards getting a favorable divorce settlement is fly to Costa Rico have the right judge issue a document declaring divorce, with house, weekend property, cars, savings accounts and maybe kids[if I want them] in my favor. Back to Houston and file divorce decree and collect settlements.
Posted on 9/26/26 at 1:11 pm to Trevaylin
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Using SFP logic on comity
Where have I given a comment on my view of comity ITT?
Posted on 9/26/26 at 1:13 pm to SlowFlowPro
It reads to me like he sent his wife to Pakistan and did the Islamic divorce while she was away?
Posted on 9/26/26 at 1:16 pm to TrueTiger
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It reads to me like he sent his wife to Pakistan and did the Islamic divorce while she was away?
I literally posted the actual case language and quoted the summary language that he went to Pakistan to do the divorce.
The case is about Texas recognizing the international/Pakistani divorce, and they ruled the lack of notice in the Pakistani proceeding violated Texas law.
Posted on 9/26/26 at 1:21 pm to SlowFlowPro
Oh, gotcha.
No matter. The message of discouragement is sent.
No matter. The message of discouragement is sent.
Posted on 9/26/26 at 1:22 pm to SlowFlowPro
talaq is a fundamental part of Islamic jurisprudence (Sharia law). It represents the specific legal process by which a husband can dissolve a marriage under Islamic law.
I see what you’re saying now. You’re saying the ruling in the Texas supreme court had nothing to do with what happened in Pakistan?
It does but it’s about her not being notified breaks Texas law which the were both residence citizens of.
I see what you’re saying now. You’re saying the ruling in the Texas supreme court had nothing to do with what happened in Pakistan?
It does but it’s about her not being notified breaks Texas law which the were both residence citizens of.
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Posted on 9/26/26 at 1:26 pm to RockyMtnTigerWDE
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lol wrong again
You don’t even understand what he’s saying
Posted on 9/26/26 at 1:27 pm to TrueTiger
This is really simple. We're the United States of America and our laws apply to everyone. If you want to practice Sharia then move your arse back to wherever the frick you came from. Not a hard concept. Keep pushing Muslims, you're not going to like the final outcome.
This post was edited on 9/26/26 at 1:28 pm
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