Only in Cambodia- Husband takes half a house.
October 6, 2008 – 10:28 am
In what can only be described as a truely fair settlment a Cambodian couple have circumvented the country’s corrupt and expensive legal system by taking the letter of the law literally. In Cambodia when a couple divorces assets are divided equally between the couple. It seems that this couple decided to divide assets in half, literally.
The Khmer-language Koh Santepheap newspaper featured a front-page photo (attached) of a precariously perched half of the stilted former home of Meuon Rima and his ex-wife Nhang, both 40, which Rima sawed with surgical precision down the middle.
Rima, was last seen driving away from the village in south-eastern Prey Veng province with his half of the home, the daily reported.
It was not known where he had gone with his very detached portion. Not surprisingly, Rima had not felt the same need to divvy up the couple’s two teenaged children, both of whom he left with Nhang.
