Setting stroke weight of adiacent cell

Hello,
I would like to know if there's a way to do this:
I have a series of tables which have to be formatted in a specific way. Unfortunately, with the table formatting options I'm able to do only a part of these formattings; so the question is: how can I set the stroke weight of a cell border based on an adiacent cell?
See attached image for explanation
Hope someone can help me!
Thanks in advance

Hi,
since nobody gave me answer, I answered myself with this JavaScript:
var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var totTxtFrames = myDoc.textFrames;
for(i=0; i<totTxtFrames.length; i++){
    myTxtFrame = totTxtFrames[i];
    totTables = myTxtFrame.tables;
    for(j=0; j<totTables.length; j++){
        myTable = totTables[j];
        totRows = myTable.rows;
        for(k=0; k<totRows.length; k++){
            myRow = totRows[k];
            myRowIndex = myRow.index;
            totCells = myRow.cells;
            for(n=0; n<totCells.length; n++){
                    myCell = totCells[n];
                    if(myCell.rowSpan > 1){
                        myCellSpan = myCell.rowSpan;
                        if(myCell.bottomEdgeStrokeWeight == 0.5){
                                totRows.item(myRowIndex + myCellSpan - 1).bottomEdgeStrokeWeight = 0.5;
                    else{
                        myCellSpan = myCell.rowSpan;
                        if(myCell.bottomEdgeStrokeWeight == 0.5){
                                totRows.item(myRowIndex + myCellSpan - 1).bottomEdgeStrokeWeight = 0.5;
Hope might help someone with the same problem
Cheers!

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