China woman who married 26 times in legal tangle
16 Aug TOI
A Chinese woman who married 26 times is now caught in a legal tangle.
Her problem is not the marriage law, but the rules concerning the
government's family planning policy.
The 40-year old woman from Shuyang county in Jiangsu province
recently discovered she was made pregnant by a former husband. She then
rid herself of the then husband and remarried the one who had made her
pregnant. When she went to register the child, the family planning
authorities discovered the child's father already had two children with
another woman in the past. So, he was not entitled to register a third
child under his name. Faced with a situation where her child would have
no legal father, the woman went back to the man she had abandoned weeks
ago.
He being childless was excited to be a father. Meanwhile, the
government said the much-married woman will face bigamy charges unless
she divorces the man who gave her the child. She is expected to remarry
the childless man soon, the reports said.
The woman had earlier remarried nine of her ex-husbands. The number
of men she had married and remarried is 15, the reports said. |