Court asks man to return Dhs19,000 to ex-fiancée

ABU DHABI: The Abu Dhabi Court for Family and Civil and Administrative Cases obligated a young man to pay Dhs19,000 to a girl who filed a lawsuit against him in which she affirmed she lent him the amount and he did not return it to her. The appellee affirmed that the appellant was his fiancée and that she always insisted on transferring sums of money to him to help in speeding up the completion of the marriage.

Details date back to last year when the girl filed a lawsuit demanding that the young man be obligated to pay her Dhs19,000 and interest of 9 per cent. She also demanded to obligate him to pay expenses and lawyer’s fees. The girl indicated that she lent the young man the amount which he did not return.

She atached to the lawsuit copies of the statements of transferring the sums to him. The appellee said what the girl gave him the money was a git and not a loan, affirming that she was his fiancée and that they decided to marry as soon as the financial means were available. He added that she offered him financial aid which he always refused.

“Once, she insisted on giving me Dhs13,000 to buy a used car, and Dhs5,000 to obtain a driving licence,” he added. The man said he sold the car for Dhs10,000 which he gave to her, adding that he owed her only Dhs5,000.

The court made the girl take the complementary oath that she transferred the amount to the appellate as a loan and not as a donation or git.

The court ruled to obligate the young man to pay Dhs19,000 to her, besides the fees and expenses.

Recently,adisputeoveravehicleworthdhs5,000 led a woman and her husband to court, where the woman filed a lawsuit, demanding her husband to give back her vehicle to her and pay a traffic fine of Dhs75. The woman requested the court to obligate her husband to pay the lawsuit fees also.

The appellant indicated that her husband took her vehicle and refused to return it back without legal justification. She atached with her lawsuit a copy of the vehicle’s licence and a copy of the traffic fine number. In court, the husband affirmed that the vehicle belonged to him, and requested to hear witnesses, so the court referred the case for investigation to hear the testimony of witnesses.