Q: Good day, Mr Naser, I want to inquire regarding Article 91 of Law 28 of 2005. I got pregnant in November 2018 and immediately got married last December 2018. Am I allowed to give birth here in the UAE without getting any problem or court case? My due date is in August 2019. Appreciate your kind advice.

Q: What is the punishment for an unmarried pregnant woman in Dubai?

Q: My friend got married to a person whom she met on a matrimonial site and is currently working with Etihad airlines, Abu Dhabi. She is his second wife now and his first wife and 11-year-old girl are living in Abu Dhabi with him for the last 11 years. Now, her terms with her husband are not good since she got to know of his other hidden affairs too. She was working in Dubai for the last 2 years when she met him, during which he never told her he is married. She has a 2-month-old boy who was born out of wedlock. She conceived at the end of December 2016 when she was in Dubai, and they got married in India on 7th July 2017. 1. Can the husband sponsor the children of his second wife in the UAE on his family visa? 2. What are the legal charges if the husband decides to confess to the adultery committed by them? Is it possible still from his side to confess and they both are married now, but she conceived the child in the UAE before marriage? 3. Can a legal marriage contract be signed now drafting the terms?

Q: I am an ex-pat. I got pregnant outside of marriage and I want to have the baby in Dubai. I cannot go back to the UK. Will I be able to obtain a birth certificate for my child if it is born here?

Q: If a woman gives birth here in Dubai without marriage, how many weeks or months will she stay in prison before being deported?

Q: Can an unmarried ex-pat woman deliver a baby in Dubai after the latest changes of family law for expatriates?

Q: Dear all, I recently got told I will not be able to have a baby and I have severe low egg count, AMH levels and at the age of 38, I am entering menopause. The doctors have said I may have 2 - 6 months to try with IVF but I am at the very near end and I must act fast. I am from the UK and unmarried. I cannot get back to the UK currently as they have strict quarantine isolation and IVF is not seen as an emergency treatment. With the new laws in the UAE now allowing pregnancy out of wedlock is there a chance an IVF clinic would be able to offer emergency IVF without being married? Thank you

Q: Dear sir/madam, My wife was pregnant when we got married in Abu Dhabi. She gave birth to a baby in Dubai. Now we are unable to get a birth certificate. We applied many times but it got rejected. What do we have to do to get the birth certificate?

An interview-format article covering the topic of pregnancy out of wedlock in the UAE. This is from the legal podcast of lawyer Ludmila Yamalova, the founder of Lawgical with LYLAW.

UAE Personal Status Law (also known as Personal Affairs Law) governs marriage, divorce, inheritance and other personal affairs in the United Arab Emirates. The law equally applies to citizens of the UAE and non-citizens unless one of them asks for the application of his home country law.