An elderly man who lives in a village in Makkah Region has filed a lawsuit against his daughter, accusing her of breech of contract – and a very bizarre one. According to the Arabic daily Al-Riyadh, the father had agreed to let his daughter get married – provided that she paid him SR1,000 a month out of the salary she makes as a teacher. The daughter said she had agreed to that condition to facilitate her marriage, insisting that she was the one who had handed over SR50,000 in dowries from her two marriages to her father. She had sued her father earlier for allegedly not letting her get married because he wanted her to keep supporting him financially. The judge eventually dismissed both lawsuits. He dismissed the father's lawsuit on the premise that the woman is not actually getting anything in return for the money she pays her father, who had agreed to something that is rightfully hers anyway, let alone the fact that she is being harmed emotionally and financially by such a bizarre condition. On the other hand, the judge dismissed the daughter's lawsuit because, as a working woman, she has no right to demand money from her father, because it is against Shariah rules. The father claims he is entitled to the money because he had paid for his daughter's education, raised her, and was the main reason in her getting a job as he carried out all transactions. The father demanded in his plea to continue to be paid the agreed monthly amount. The daughter said in her plea that her father did not need the money, as he gets a monthly salary and has a thriving livestock business and a producing farm. The woman demanded SR50,000 for the two dowries she claimed her father forced her to give up. The father said she had given him the dowries willingly. The two of them said they were not convinced with the judge for dismissal, and said they would take their case to the Court of Cassation.
