DUBAI // A Yemeni woman has been jailed for three months for forging her marriage contract.
The 38-year-old teacher changed her dowry from 100,000 to 500,000 Yemeni riyals to get a better divorce settlement, it was alleged.
She then submitted the forged contract to a judge at the Dubai Sharia court as part of her divorce battle.
“I got married when I was 14 your honour. The agreements were made between my father and my husband. I had no idea what amounts for the dowry they agreed on or wrote down in the contract,” she told Dubai Criminal Court last September.
The Yemeni woman had been married since 1999. But in 2010, problems developed between her and her husband that lead to a divorce battle with the forgery made in 2011.
A forensic exam showed a chemical substance was used to delete the original number and 500 had been added to the contract.
The report also said that the number 500,000 was not written in words at the end of the contract as it should be.
“When she filed for divorce, I looked at the marriage contract she submitted and found out it was forged,” said her 39-year-old Yemeni husband.
She denied the charges of forgery and using the documents but was sentenced on Monday.
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