💬 Opinion 2d ago · Eugene Volokh

Texas Court Refuses to Enforce Pakistan Court's Divorce Judgment, in $100M-Marital-Community-Asset Case

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From Azhar v. Choudhri, decided today by the Texas Supreme Court:
A man who has lived in Houston since he was three years old, who built several businesses in Texas, and who accumulated over $100 million in community assets during a Texas-domiciled marriage, traveled to Pakistan to obtain a unilateral divorce from his wife.
He did so without her knowledge or consent, using an Islamic legal mechanism called talaq. His wife was not served with process. She was not heard. She received no notice at

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