Ottawa family wants $500K dowry back

[GARD align=”left”] Toronto Star news paper reports, Shakiba Banifatemi owns half of $1-million home, a gift from her soon-to-be ex-husband’s family. A judge rules she does not have to return her share. In keeping with Iranian tradition, the groom’s family gave the bride a generous gift — half ownership of a $1-million Ottawa home — a “dowry” that is now the source of a bitter dispute between the now-separated couple and their families. “I’ve been betrayed,” Sima Abdollahpour, the groom’s mother, told the Star. “We can not trust anybody anymore.” The full farsi version of the report can be read at IranShahr News agency.