Court orders woman to give husband back Dhs453,000

ABU DHABI: The Abu Dhabi Court for Family and Civil and Administrative Cases obligated a wife to return Dhs453,000 to her husband, which he had transferred to her account in five instalments within one week.

The wife claimed that the amount was expenses from a husband to his wife, while the court considered that the amount exceeded the reasonable limits for the husband’s spending on a wife.

The husband filed a lawsuit in which he demanded that his wife be obliged to return Dhs453,000 to him and the legal interest of 12 per cent from the date of filing the lawsuit until the completion of payment, and obligating her to pay fees and expenses and in the lawyer’s fees, stressing that he lent her the amount and that she pledged to return it within a period of three months but she failed to do so.

The appellant attached copies of account statements to his lawsuit, and in return, the wife affirmed that these amounts were sent as spending on her as a wife.

The court affirmed that according to the attached account statements, which the wife did not deny, the husband transferred Dhs100,000 from his account to his wife’s account, the next day, he transferred another Dhs100,000, on the third day he transferred to her Dhs100,000, on the fourth day he transferred Dhs100,000, and three days later he transferred to her Dhs53,000.

The court said that in view of the time during which the amounts were transferred to the wife within a week, they exceed the reasonable limits for the husband’s spending on a wife, pointing out that the wife did not request an investigation to prove the validity of her defence that these amounts were transferred to her as alimony based on the marital relationship between them and therefore she was obligated to refund Dhs453,000 to her husband, and the court also obligated her to pay the fees and expenses of the case and the lawyer’s fees.