Saudi courts received 4,189 divorce cases this year, of which 31 percent were heard at Riyadh and Jeddah courts, local media said quoting data released by the Ministry of Justice.
During the same period, the courts Kingdom-wide received some 583 khula cases (in which a woman files for divorce), where Riyadh and Jeddah registered 33 percent of the total divorce cases, Al-Riyadh daily said.
Riyadh captured the highest number of divorce cases at 745 cases, representing nearly 18 percent of the total number of registered divorce cases in Saudi courts during the last six months, followed by Makkah with 653 cases, or 15.5 percent, Jeddah with 563 cases (13 percent), Madinah (298 cases), Taif (227), and Dammam (221), the paper said.
On the other hand, Jeddah registered the highest rates of khula cases in the past six months at 124 cases, or 21.2 percent of all khula cases in Saudi courts, followed by Riyadh at 68 cases (11.5 percent), Quriyyat 55 cases (9.5 percent), Ahsa (29), Taif, Dammam, and Jafr (18 cases for each), Jamum (15 cases), and Khobar 14 cases, the daily said.
According to records, last year Riyadh topped the list with 1,835 cases divorce cases, followed by Jeddah at 1,439 cases.
However, Jeddah received the highest number of khula cases at 333, followed by Riyadh at 108 cases, the paper said.
4,189 divorce cases filed with Kingdom’s courts in 6 months
