Calverly v. Harper

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an Islamic marriage contract “may be enforced according 148 Al-Musawi and Alaaedi to neutral principles of law” as a “contractual obligation”
• holding that an 4 ALULDDIN v. ALFARTOUSI Opinion of the Court Iranian marriage mahr was enforceable in a divorce proceeding because the mahr was a contract under neutral principles of law
• reasoning that abstention in favor of foreign proceedings was appropriate because “the parties . . . ha[d] not sought enforcement of the mahr in Massachusetts courts”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).