(NZ Herald) A New Zealand man does not have to pay a $212,000 dowry to his ex-wife after the High Court ruled United Arab Emirates marriage laws did not apply here.
United Arab Emirates woman Rahla Almarzooqi had her appeal to enforce a $212,095 Islamic Sharia law marriage dowry her husband signed in 2013 thrown out in the New Zealand High Court on March 18.
Both Almarzooqi and her ex-husband Rafid Salih first met on an online Islamic dating site in 2010 when Almarzooqi was living in Australia and Salih was living in New Zealand.
In 2013, Almarzooqi visited Salih in New Zealand and the pair embarked on a relationship.
In December that year they were married in Dubai in accordance with Islamic/Sharia law.
