In a bizarre news that made headlines, a couple in rural Cambodia has terminated their 18-year marriage with a divorce settlement that entailed sawing the wooden house in two they once shared, villagers said Friday.

The husband, 42-year-old Moeun Sarim, has taken away with him all the bits and pieces of his half a house, said his 35-year-old wife, Vat Navy.

"Very strange, but this is what my husband wanted," she said by phone from a village about 62 miles east of Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh. She said they ended their marriage last month.

"He brought his relatives and used saws to cut the house in half," she said, adding that she now owns the other half that is still standing. The house is made from wood with a tile roof and propped up on wooden pillars, a typical style for a Cambodian country home.

She said her estranged husband and his relatives, after ripping apart half of the house, carried all the debris to his parents' house nearby.

She said the divorce was prompted by her husband's jealousy about her alleged relationship with a policeman in the village. She denied having an extramarital affair.

"He wanted a divorce, and I said, "Let's divorce," she said.

The husband could not be reached for comment.

Bou Bout, a village chief, said local officials and police were present to witness the day the couple split their 20-by-24 1/2 foot house into half.

"Local officials tried three times to get them to mend their differences, but the husband would not budge," Bou Bout said by phone.

Source: Yahoo! Associate Press

that was one weird sharing wealth from divorce, what if it was an stone house? his husband still get his half of it? wonder what it looks like lol...

Haha, yea that is some bizarre news to settle an divorcement.
If they did have a stone house, sawing it wouldn't be an easy task. Even carry it would be hard to maneuver... rofl!

lol...they can make it half by putting tapes on the floors and furnitures like one we had on the local movie lol...

really a weird thing to half the house like that. he really made it literally out of it. too bad!

This is ridiculously weird and funny. The half house looks quite interesting, like an art piece. Actually, it would have been a great imaginative, abstract art project about future divorce settlements before this ex-husband decided to do it for real. At least he left the stairs leading up to the house intact.

I hope no one else decides to cut their houses in half, otherwise every second house down the street will soon be half-a-house.

hahhaah how strange to split money or fair shares.....i find this kinda interesting so i showed it to my parents and they also think it's weird ^^