Beyond The Barrio: Divorced Couple In Cambodia Decide To Split House. With Chainsaws.
9 October 2008, 11:15 AM. By Daniel Mauser
A couple in Cambodia, rather than have to endure a lengthy and expensive divorce trial, decided to literally split all their assets in half - including their house:
Not only they decide to tear half the house down, the husband said that before he puts together the remnants of his side of the severed property, he will stay at his ageing parents’ home, so that they can look after him whenever he falls ill.
‘His wife said that if her husband got sick and stayed at home, she was always made to pay for his medicine,’ said chief Morn.
‘But if he stayed at his parents’ house, she wouldn’t have to pay. So that was when they decided to separate.
‘I and other people in the village tried to persuade them to think clearly before they did this because they had been married for nearly 40 years, but they didn’t listen.’
However!:
But Prak Phin, a local lawyer, said that literally dividing property was legal if both parties were in agreement.
‘This action, however, does not mean they are legally divorced,’ he said.
This couple seems like a lot of fun. We’d like to invite them over for dinner. In our charming split-level halfway house. We’ll assume they take Half & Half in their coffee? Haha. Zing. Sigh. Weep-because-that’s-not-farfetched.
Pictured: The house LITERALLY sawn in half by divorcing couple [Daily Mail]
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Cambodia is a deeply strange place
also a very sad one
@ x111: Strange? And sad? I’m sure no other country can say that for the U.S.
@La Linda - Pol Pot’s genocide was not all that long ago (1979). It and the subsequent war killed something like 25% of the Cambodian population. The survivors seemed strange and sad to me. The young people, fortunately, a little less so.
I think I just get immediately nervous over sweeping statements about a whole country. Especially with words like “strange.” It would be like saying Mexico is a “weird” place or Brazil is a “nasty” country.
Point taken. I do have a tendency to announce what are in fact only personal impressions as if they were general truths