According to a report by the Khaleej Times, a woman from the UAE filed a lawsuit against her own father when due to certain family disputes, he refused to let her marry her fiance.
As per current UAE law, women of all ages need the consent of their fathers and male guardians in order to get married. The 25-year-old took this step of filing a lawsuit with the Al Ain Personal Affairs Court after she was left with no choice.
Within the proceedings of the lawsuit, the woman contested that her father had only rejected the proposal since her parents were having a domestic dispute and her mother had consented to the marriage.
The complaint also featured an appeal to the judge to either grant her permission to marry or to replace her father as her legal guardian with another male relative.
In an interview to Khaleej Times, lawyer and legal adviser, Hassan Al Marzouqi, explained that many similar cases have already been registered in UAE courts with them being prevalent in several Gulf countries such as Saudi Arabia.
A user also set the record straight on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/el3kbri/status/577808971081318400
Just last week another case of a Saudi woman went viral across the Arab world, when her brother refused to let her marry of her own choice.
