91-year-old Emirati marries 43-year-old woman in Ajman

Aya El Deeb, Staff Reporter

A 91-year-old UAE national married a 43-year-old resident, whose marriage contract was registered at the Ajman Sharia Court in October 2022, according to recent statistical data for marriage contracts registered in the federal courts in Sharjah, Ajman, Fujairah and Umm Al Quwain during 2022.

According to the data registered in the electronic marriage system, the Ajman Sharia Court previously registered a marriage contract between a resident husband and wife.

The husband's age at that time amounted to 81 years, while the wife’s was 51, with a difference of 30 years between them.

Statistics also showed that 13 men got married at an age ranging between 70 and 79 years, of whom 10 were citizens who married non-citizens, while 3 other non-citizens married non-citizens women.

The number of marriage contracts in which the ages of the husbands ranged between 60 and 69 years was 45, including 29 citizens and 16 residents, according to statistics, while the ages of their wives ranged between 24 and 68 years.

Regarding the ages of wives at the time of marriage, statistics showed that the Fujairah Court of First Instance registered 2,022 marriage contracts between two residents, male,78, and female, 74.

During the period from 2016 to 2022, as many as 22 couples got married while they were over 80, according the statistics of the electronic marriage system, but the age recorded by the Ajman Sharia Court of the 91-year-old man was the oldest.

Recently, the Abu Dhabi Court for Family, Civil and Administrative Cases rejected a lawsuit filed by a parent against his eight sons and daughters from his deceased first wife, demanding the division of a piece of land he owned equally with the deceased mother.

The appellant named Ahmed, affirmed to the court that after the death of his wife, her share was inherited by him and their sons and daughters.

But after her death, the latter persons occupied all the other buildings built on the plot of land and forced him to live with his second wife and their children in one room despite his ownership of more than two-thirds of the land and the buildings on it.

The Court of First Instance delegated an expert committee to find out the possibility of dividing the land between Ahmed and his children from his first wife.