6 Incongruency of Law and Practice of Divorce

The exam's critical core: 1. The access gap: the rural wife's court-distance — cost, documentation (the unregistered marriage's proof problem), time (the docket years vs. the statutory six-month aim); 2. The social gap: stigma asymmetry (the divorced woman's position vs. the man's); the family- and-community pressure against filing (the reconciliation stage's abuse — forced "compromise"); 3. The economic gap: the equal-share rule's paper quality where property is informal (the guthi- and-land registered in the husband's family's names; the remittance-account control); the alimony ceiling; 4. The procedure gap: the judicial committees' capacity; the lawyers' and mediators' gender- balance; the interim-relief underuse; 5. The documentation gap: foreign-employment marriages' and foreign-divorce decrees' recognition costs; the abandoned-spouse (the "no news for seven years" deserted-wife pattern).