Aleem v. Aleem
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
931 A.2d 1123 (Md. Ct. Spec. App. 2007)
Relevant factsFree
During the wife's (plaintiff) Maryland divorce proceeding against the husband (defendant), he separately divorced her by talaq under Pakistani law, which — unlike Maryland's fairness-based distribution rules — gives the title-holding spouse (the husband) all marital property regardless of the other spouse's contributions. The trial court declined to hold a separate evidentiary hearing on whether to grant comity to the talaq divorce, and instead granted the wife an absolute divorce plus half the husband's pension.
IssueFree
Whether a state court will apply a foreign law under principles of comity when that law is contrary to the state's public policy.