Divorce – how narcissists are tackled by the family courts in England and Dubai

The narcissist is a challenge for both family court judges and the object of the narcissist’s regime of control and coercion. Faced with an arch deceiver, judges, however experienced they are in identifying dishonesty and manipulation, regularly fall victim to a personality hell bent on winning; but not in Dubai it seems.

A 2017 report in Gulf News confirmed:

‘A wife won her legal battle and had her marriage annulled after she convinced Dubai’s highest court that her husband is narcissistic and psychologically incapable of being a good husband.’

The wife’s lawyer explained that after a number of year of marriage and two children, the husband had become’troublesome and unbearable to live with… my client realised that her husband had a mental disorder that made him a difficult person to live with’. Apparently the husband had also ‘been subject to a clinical test that proved his disease was incurable’. The case which was refused by the Primary and the Appeal Court was eventually successful at the Dubai Cassation Court.

Read the full article here.