Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Court Grants Woman Divorce Over Husband’s Refusal to Install a Household Toilet

Marriages can dissolve for any number of reasons, but a family court in India recently permitted a woman to divorce her husband over an unusual point of contention: a toilet, or rather, a lack thereof.
According to Kshitiz Gaur of the Times of India, the 24-year-old woman claimed that her husband refused to install a toilet or bathroom in their home. 
As a result, she was forced to relieve herself in open fields at night, which she said “undermined her dignity.” More