K.S. v. T.S.

DUNFERMLINE , 1 November 2012. The Sheriff having resumed consideration of the cause finds the following facts to be admitted or proved.

[1] The parties met in or around 1994 when the pursuer was on holiday in the Red Sea resort in Egypt where the defender was working at the time. They had a short relationship during that holiday described as a holiday romance. The pursuer returned to Scotland. The parties exchanged letters and telephone calls for a short while thereafter but lost contact.

[2] For a period up to early 2001 the pursuer had been living in Germany and was involved in a relationship. When that relationship ended she contacted the defender in Egypt and arranged to spend a holiday there.

[3] She visited Egypt in February 2001 when the parties' relationship resumed. The pursuer returned to Germany but had made up her mind that she was going to go to Egypt to be with the defender and there was an intention to marry. She informed her parents of this intention and, while her mother had some concerns about the cultural differences, she accepted the pursuer's feelings for the defender and her wish to marry. The pursuer returned to Egypt in May 2001 and resumed the relationship with the defender and lived with him.

[4] The pursuer was raised by her parents in the Brethren faith, a faith she ceased to practice at the age of 18. From then and until the parties separated in or about September 2010 the pursuer, while remaining a Christian, did not display any outward practice of her religion.