Married Cambodian couple saw home in half after separation


	Married Cambodian couple saw home in half after separation

hitchhiker08

10-9-2008 12:45 PM

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divorce, separation, phnom penh, cambodia, lawyer, husband, wife, marriage

hitchhiker08 says:

Lost his better half, quite literally!!

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					<SPAN class="caption">The husband sawed off his half of the house following the split</SPAN>
					<SPAN class="credit">Photo: PHNOM PENH POST</SPAN>
					</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3159189/Married-Cambodian-couple-saw-home-in-half-after-separation.html"><H2>A married couple in Cambodia who had "finally had enough" of each other have gone their separate ways by literally cutting their home in half. </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3159189/Married-Cambodian-couple-saw-home-in-half-after-separation.html"><P>The wife will stay put with the upright half while her husband has carried away his half to start again on the other side of the village.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3159189/Married-Cambodian-couple-saw-home-in-half-after-separation.html"><P>Neighbours said the couple saw the radical action as the most cost-efficient and equitable way to avoid each other in a country where divorce lawyers can be expensive.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3159189/Married-Cambodian-couple-saw-home-in-half-after-separation.html"><P>Vorng Morn, the headman of Cheach village, fifty miles from the capital Phnom Penh, told the <I>Phnom Penh Post</I>: "We tried to persuade them to think clearly before they did this because they had been married for nearly 40 years. But they did not listen."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3159189/Married-Cambodian-couple-saw-home-in-half-after-separation.html"><P>Until he reconstructs his half of the marital home the husband will live with his mother and father. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3CA426B5-1D9B-4F67-8BE6-6BE24C085260/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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