Travel Insurance Might Cover Your Divorce

by Catherine Bodry on

It’s important to read the fine print on your travel insurance policy, obviously. That being said, there weren’t too many surprises on George Hobica’s list of travel insurance’s exclusions and exceptions. Acts of war aren’t covered, but they generally aren’t in regular policies. (After 9/11 Bush declared the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon acts of war, and people were in an uproar because it meant huge limitations on their insurance policies.) And if you’re protesting something and get sprayed with tear gas or beat with a club, don’t go crying to your insurance company for coverage. You won’t get it.

Also listed are pet injuries (duh?), canceled tours, pre-existing medical conditions, pregnancy and birth (hmmm…), and self-inflicted injuries. But the biggest surprise is not that a canceled trip due to divorce or legal separation isn’t covered, it’s that it’s becoming increasingly covered.

Buying travel insurance to cover a possible impending divorce? Am I crazy, or this completely insane? (That’s not a rhetorical question; I really want to know).

Cultures: Divorce While Sleeping

by Adrienne Wilson on

I
didn’t know things like this could happen, but what’s more interesting is the what was supposed to happen afterwards
and what actually happened. Pology, an amazing blog covering
cultures from all over brings our attention to an unusual case of
divorce in eastern India. Under Islamic law a husband only has to say "talaq," the Urdu word for
divorce three times to secure a permanent end to his marriage. Well, while Aftab Ansari was asleep and under the
influence of medicines to help him sleep better, the 30 year-old uttered "talaq" three times causing
his wife to worry and discuss with friends. The husband said he did not mean to divorce his wife of 11 years and that it
was an accident, however when word got around to the Village Elders their solution was this:

In order to
remarry the couple would have to be apart for at least 100 days and that the wife would have to spend a night with
another man and then be divorced by him. The couple not wishing to obey the rules have now been ostracized according to
the Yahoo
news piece.

Now is that crazy or what? It’s almost like the Wizard of Oz with a twist where Dorothy and Toto are at ends and
"talaq" three times gets them their wish to be free from one another and Toto speaks instead of
barks.