{"id":53173,"date":"2018-01-11T00:54:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T00:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=53173"},"modified":"2018-01-11T00:54:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T00:54:03","slug":"huma-abedin-anthony-weiner-withdraw-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=53173","title":{"rendered":"Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner withdraw their divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"

She just can\u2019t pull out.<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her jailed sext-a-holic hubby Anthony Weiner have ended their pending divorce case.<\/p>\n

Identical statements from their lawyers Wednesday cited the scandal-plagued couple\u2019s desire to protect their 6-year-old son by settling outside court \u2014 but experts say the real reason could be to shield one another from a potential federal probe.<\/p>\n

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Abedin, 41 \u2014 spotted over the weekend sunning herself at the luxury Four Seasons Hotel on Hawaii\u2019s Big Island \u2014 was scheduled to appear in Manhattan Supreme Court for a compliance conference in her contested divorce case against Weiner, 53.<\/p>\n

Instead, one of her attorneys submitted paperwork signed by both parties agreeing to end the case, a court source told The Post.<\/p>\n

The judge announced from the bench that the case was \u201cdiscontinued.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn order to reduce any impact of these proceedings on their child, the parties have decided to reach a settlement swiftly and privately,\u201d Abedin\u2019s lawyer, Charles Miller, and Weiner\u2019s attorney, Margaret Donohoe, said in separate statements.<\/p>\n

But family law expert Michael Stutman said they\u2019d still have to file a divorce settlement in court for it to be legally binding.<\/p>\n

Stutman, a prominent Manhattan divorce lawyer who\u2019s not involved in the case, speculated that Weiner and Abedin might want to stay married to invoke spousal immunity.<\/p>\n

President Trump last week urged the Justice Department to investigate Abedin for keeping classified emails on Weiner\u2019s laptop.<\/p>\n

\u201cCrooked Hillary Clinton\u2019s top aid [sic], Huma Abedin, has been accused of disregarding basic security protocols. She put Classified Passwords into the hands of foreign agents,\u201d the president tweeted. \u201cRemember sailors [sic] pictures on submarine? Jail! Deep State Justice Dept must finally act?\u201d<\/p>\n

New York law states that a husband or wife can\u2019t be \u201crequired to disclose a confidential communication made by one or the other during the marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two more leading divorce lawyers agreed that spousal immunity may have been the reason for withdrawing the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe easily could be called in by a grand jury to testify against her so by dropping the lawsuit he can exercise the marital privilege,\u201d matrimonial lawyer Suzanne Bracker told The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re married to someone you cannot be compelled to testify against them.\u201d<\/p>\n

A third attorney, Bonnie Rabin, said the \u201cspousal privilege issue is out there considering the investigations.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s hardly the first time Abedin has stunned onlookers by opting to stand by her philandering man, who is currently serving nearly two years of hard time in a Massachusetts federal lockup for sexting with an underage girl.<\/p>\n

She stuck with the much mocked former lawmaker when he resigned from Congress in 2011 \u2014 tearfully admitting to his sexting addiction after mistakenly tweeting out a photo of his crotch.<\/p>\n

And she was still by his side when he ran for mayor in 2013 \u2014 only for his campaign to go flaccid when he was caught sexting with multiple women under the pseudonym \u201cCarlos Danger.\u201d<\/p>\n

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