2023 Virginia Unpublished: Yazdi v. Darai: Dowry Unrelated to Spousal Support During cross-examination, the wife admitted that she had a dowry of five hundred gold coins in Iran and that she had started the process to recover her dowry in November 2019. But she explained that she did not know the value of it and

In Afghahi v. Ghafoorian (2010), Trial Court ruled that husband pay 514 gold coins to wife pursuant to a premarital contract between the parties. Court allowed the marriage contract into evidence, wife to testify as to Iranian and Islamic law, and without expert testimony awarded wife 514 gold coins when the parties had no assets

2009 OVISSI v. SALEMI: Dowry is Sole and Separate Property of Wife In 2009 Ovissi v. Salemi, post-separation, the Husband used a line of credit against a marital residence and paid the Wife’s dowry of $60,000.00. In accounting for the use of the line of credit, the Trial Court denied credit for payment of the