Courts facilitate family meetings
With Eidul Fitr just around the corner, the family courts have allowed divorced spouses to hold special Eid reunions with their children and other family members.
Parents who were separated from their children after divorce attended the reunion with special Eid presents with them. They brought several food items such as pizza, burgers and juices and fed them to their children themselves. Many parents brought special Eid gifts such as Eid clothes, cash, watches, tiny bicycles, phones, mini electric automobiles, glasses, and shoes for their children.
The court had allowed these meetings to proceed for two hours during which the children were not permitted to leave the courtroom. These meetings were held in special meeting rooms within the judicial complex. The parents arrived early in the morning on the day of the meeting and waited for their turn. Besides parents, grandparents and other family members were also present on the occasion.
In cases where women had remarried after getting a divorce had also come to meet their children who had arrived there with their fathers and grandmothers. The children were delighted to see the gifts and were excited to open them immediately.
Heartbreaking incidents were also witnessed during the meeting where the former couples regretted their divorces while talking to their children and cherishing each moment spent with them.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 18th, 2023.