General legal information furnished as a service of Fort Lauderdale / West Palm Beach family law attorney Janet Langjahr
Thirty-five year old Indian house-painter has affair with teen-aged girl. He decides to marry her.
Problem: He is already married to a woman of his own age.
Wife leaves Husband due to affair, returning to her parents’ home.
Husband asks for divorce and presents divorce papers to Wife to sign. Wife refuses.
Husband consults attorney.
Husband again demands that Wife sign divorce papers. Wife again refuses.
This time Husband does not take “no” for an answer.
Husband produces a knife and stabs Wife twice. To her death.
Indian police arrest Husband and take his knife into evidence.
Husband’s remarriage to teenager seems less likely now.
Read more in this Times of India article: Man kills wife for refusing to sign divorce papers.
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