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Abandoned wife sues husband-turned monk

(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-07-24 10:26

A young wife surnamed Sun from Miyun district, Beijing, sued her husband for divorce recently on the grounds of abandonment.

Sun's husband Zhang left her, pregnant, at their home in Miyun district one day last August after a minor quarrel, and went to live as a monk in a temple outside Beijing.

Zhang's self-imposed seclusion carried on until almost a year after his wife had given birth to a baby girl. Sun filed for a divorce settlement early this week that awards her all their common property as well as an apartment for her and their baby. The case is soon to be heard.

(Beijing Times)