25 years too old
The Egyptians have a law that limits the age gap between spouses to 25 years.
The Egyptian authorities have banned a 92-year-old man from marrying a 17-year-old girl, the Egyptian al-Akhbar newspaper has reported.
The ministry of justice invoked a law which says the age gap between spouses should not exceed 25 years.
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That means, 17-year old girl can only be married by a man no older than 42 years.
That also means, if Rika Tolentino Kato is an Egyptian, Yusril would've not been allowed to marry her.
The same goes to Woody Allen, Billy Joel, and Rod Stewart.
While Michael Douglas - Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Harrison Ford - Calista Flockhart would be on the border.
However, as in "if there's will, there's a way", there's a catch in this law.
In special cases, the justice ministry does allow foreign men to marry Egyptian women more than 25 years their junior if they deposit a very large sum of money in the name of their wife at the Egyptian National Bank. (Didn't the Indonesian government try to implement something like this before?)
To be fair to the old man, though - if he is 92, he's only allowed to marry a 67-year old. Maybe we should let him make use the money he's earned all his life, lah...
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