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Nigerian man to divorce 82 wives
Nigerian man to divorce 82 wivesA Nigerian religious leader with 86 wives has accepted an Islamic decree ordering him to divorce all but four of them, local authorities say.With 86 wives and over 170 children, I am wondering if Mr Abubakar has got a television?

Nigerian with 86 wives arrested under Sharia laws
The AP reports:  . . . Muslim principles forbid men to take more than four wives. Around half of Nigeria’s 140 million people are Muslim, and Niger was one of twelve majority-Muslim states that adopted the Islamic Sharia criminal code after Nigeria returned to civilian rule in 1999...

Saudi Religious Police Official Arrested for Excess of Wives
A 56-year-old official in the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice had been arrested for exceeding the wife limit in the Jazan province of Saudi Arabia. Under Sharia law, a man can have as many as four wives but the official had accumulated six wives...

Love and Marriage ... And Marriage ... And Marriage ... And Marriage ... And Marriage ... And Marriage ...
Nigerian man arrested for refusing to divorce 82 of his 86 wives. (The authorities want him to get down to a sharia-approved four spouses.) He also has something like 170 kids. I'm not sure what the authorities think they're going...

Man With 86 Wives Will Have 86 Lawyers
Human-rights groups in Nigeria say they have "mobilized" dozens of lawyers to help defend a man who has been threatened with death for having too many wives. Bello Masaba, a preacher from the town of Bidda, in a Muslim majority...

Lawyers as Political Wives
Canada’s National Post has an article about political wives in the US and Canada. The author leads with the topical nod to Silda Wall Spitzer, the wife of NY governor Eliot Spitzer, then comments on other famous political wives such as Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, etc...

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DUI/DWI
If you have been arrested for drunk driving or driving under the influence you should contact an attorney immediately.

Criminal Law
If you have been arrested or mistreated by police you should speak to a criminal law attorney.

Video Taping Arrest
Harris County pays wrongfully arrested brothers $1.7 million civil rights settlement.

Rally Rights
Gettysburg Borough awards arrested protester $22,500 civil rights settlement.

Financial Elder Abuse - Financial Exploitation, Elder Abuse Lawyers
Financial Elder Abuse alleging seniors are taken advantage of for their finances.