This country recognises the equal rights of husband and wife in a divorce, so will not recognise a prenup agreement that is unfair to the woman
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Like many men who divorce, Dr Zaid Al-Saffar thinks the amount that the courts have ruled he must pay to his ex-wife is outrageous. But he has a further complaint. He thinks that "family law in this country is biased against Muslim people".
He and his wife formalised their marriage according to Islamic law, and he expected their relationship to be governed by those rules. They even made a "prenuptial agreement" which specified that, in return for his paying her a sum of money when they married, she would give up her rights to a share of their home. Dr Al-Saffar was furious when England's courts ruled that the agreement didn't count, and he had to pay his wife half the value of the house they had shared.
