Marriage in hell and now adivse needed for divorce

guynew28

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I had an arranged marriage to a girl in India who I found after the wedding ceremony that she is solely interested in getting green card and good life ($). We had Hindu wedding ceremony, but not yet registered in Indian court. Now I am looking for divorce. Girl is putting a lot of pressure on me and my family in India to send her to USA else they will file dowery case against us. How can I proceed on this ?
I am US citizen with parents in India and the girl is Indian.
Any suggestion or referral is appreciated !!
Thanks

@Alex
 
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Your best bet is to try and prove the marraige never occured. If thats not possible file for divorce after bringing her to the US, DON'T let her take action against you in India.
 
Thanks Hipka,
What is drawback filing case in India ? Girl side is already hostile against me and they are asking money already. I do not want to bring her to US and casue problem for me.

Please advise.
@Alex
 
Thanks for the link Hipka,
I contacted the branch office of one law firm in india http://www.singhania.com/index1.html
The lawyer at New York office told me that the girl can file Alimony case against me here in USA. The girl who I left to USA 3 days after the wedding to keep my job is asking US$ 1,100 / month for her living expenses in India, and she wants me to bring her to USA and give her green card. She /her family threathen that if it's not resolve by the end of this month, they said they will take some legal action and put me in hell, it might affact my parents in India.
Any stretagy??
 
Thats right an alimony case can always be filed in the USA. However your position will be worse if you go to india. My suggestion is bring her over here and file for the green card. Then write a letter secretly to USCIS with her case number telling them that she is harrassing you for the GC. In the meantime try to work out a divorce with her. As GC takes about 2 years to process, you should get your divorce by then and she won't be able to get the GC.
If you want to reduce the alimony you really have to negotitate and fight it out in court, really there is no other alternative.
 
get everything in writing. keep every correspondence. get her to send you emails, letters, indicating the threats or harrassment. one day your going to have to prove your case. if you apply for her gc and you write to the USCIS about her then they might go after you and put you in jail b/c you are the citizen and it will appear that you took money for GC and now that she's full of issues you don't want to deliver on the deal. just remember that they don't know your story or cultural background so your going to have to prove that she was threathening you to get the gc and you had no choice b/c of your parents in india, but you really don't want to get her a gc.

i don't know anything abt the dowry laws in india, but maybe if you get the intention to use dowry (eg. an email where she says she's going to do it while you clearly state that you haven't taken any money from her family) can probably be used in court. maybe you could countersue her.

if you bring her here, she can file for alimony and it seems her family is pretty smart abt all these things and would have thought abt this already. your going to be stuck with this. maybe you could get her to sign a pre-nuptual before registering the marriage. if you don't then she will not only get alimony but half of your estate (property, assets, everything and anything).

best thing is proceed with care. consult with another attorney who is well-versed with these issues and get everything in writing or recorded (mybe you could even get your phone conversations recorded. (eg. talk to her on speaker phone and hold a tape near the speaker).
you will need to prove your case, either here or in india.
 
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