How would she have known this?
I would better understand people's lack of compassion for her on this account if she was dealing with the ex-husband, because yeah, I would think a woman who marries a Gulf Arab should realize this fact.
But when it comes to signing a document that she was told was related to an inheritance for her son from his dead father -- seriously, how is she supposed to intuit that signing this would, by default, give custody of her child over to her son's uncle?
I wouldn't have known that, and I have lived here for the better part of 2 decades. I would have thought that it simply secured my son's future claim to whatever it was by the time he becomes an adult (18 years old typically). No way would it ever cross my mind that I was signing my child away to someone else...
And are you implying that she signed the document willingly and then had a change of heart (which is what you seem to be saying when you say "They might have not tricked her into signing the papers in the first place")?? C'mon...clearly that is not the case, genesis. The woman never intended to have her chid taken from her (and he was taken...don't try and sugar coat it and say it was anything other than an abduction...custody was granted to the uncle/grandmother weeks later by a judge, but up until that point, the boy was being held against the express wishes of his mother).
"If you're looking for sympathy, you'll find it between sh*t and syphilis in the dictionary."
- David Sedaris
How would she have known this?
I would better understand people's lack of compassion for her on this account if she was dealing with the ex-husband, because yeah, I would think a woman who marries a Gulf Arab should realize this fact.
But when it comes to signing a document that she was told was related to an inheritance for her son from his dead father -- seriously, how is she supposed to intuit that signing this would, by default, give custody of her child over to her son's uncle?
I wouldn't have known that, and I have lived here for the better part of 2 decades. I would have thought that it simply secured my son's future claim to whatever it was by the time he becomes an adult (18 years old typically). No way would it ever cross my mind that I was signing my child away to someone else...
And are you implying that she signed the document willingly and then had a change of heart (which is what you seem to be saying when you say "They might have not tricked her into signing the papers in the first place")?? C'mon...clearly that is not the case, genesis. The woman never intended to have her chid taken from her (and he was taken...don't try and sugar coat it and say it was anything other than an abduction...custody was granted to the uncle/grandmother weeks later by a judge, but up until that point, the boy was being held against the express wishes of his mother).
"If you're looking for sympathy, you'll find it between sh*t and syphilis in the dictionary."
- David Sedaris