Dubai: A woman has won a lawsuit against her father, who tried to prevent her from marrying a man whom he deemed socially unsuitable.

The Emirati woman met her countryman in the government department where they work and when the latter approached the woman’s father wanting to marry her, he was strongly rejected.

The father refused to let his daughter, in her 30s, marry the Emirati man, citing unsuitable social and cultural differences.

Despite persistent efforts to convince the father that the man she had met at work suits her socially and culturally, the father decisively turned down all efforts.

Thereafter, the woman lodged a personal status lawsuit against her father in which she requested the Dubai Sharia Court’s permission to debar her father as her custodian.

In her lawsuit, the woman asked the court to appoint a Sharia court judge as her custodian [replacing her father’s custodianship] to be able to marry the man she wants to live her life with.

In her lawsuit, the claimant explained that her father had consented to her marriage earlier to another man.

In the first marriage, the couple signed the marriage contract but the woman had not yet moved into her spouse’s house before they divorced.

When the daughter failed to convince her father to allow her to marry her co-worker and the father failed to prevent his daughter from pursuing her marriage plans, the woman decided to take her father to court.

All attempts to convince the father and his daughter to reconcile and reach an amicable solution reached a dead end.

Thereafter the woman lodged her lawsuit before the Sharia Court and sought to depose her father as her custodian since he had been barring her marriage.

In the lawsuit, the woman debarred her father [as her custodian] and sought a judge’s custodianship to be allowed to marry.

The Sharia Court debarred the father and appointed a judge, who acted as the woman’s custodian so she could marry her co-worker.

However, the father appealed the primary ruling before the Sharia Appeal Court that overturned that ruling and decided to bar the woman from marrying without her father’s consent.

The woman challenged the appellate ruling before the Sharia Cassation Court that [again] overturned the appellate ruling and allowed a judge to become the claimant’s custodian.

Thereafter the woman won her lawsuit and married her co-worker.

The Cassation Court’s ruling is final.