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5 available 5 • View allFiling a case for higher maintenance and possibility of travel ban

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Q: I'm an Australian non-Muslim expat resident for 10 years. My wife is the same, as are our three children, ages 19,16 (girls) and 11 (boy).
I have opened a case for divorce in Australia, and the hearing is in November. My wife wants to take me to court in the UAE regarding child maintenance.
I currently pay 35% of my monthly salary to my wife for child support. She wants more. I am due to leave the country next July permanently.
If she opens a court case, will that stop me from leaving? Has she got a case for more money?


Sep 12, 2019
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Claiming maintenance from husband living in Dubai



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Q: Dear Sirs
I married (Nikah) my husband, Egyptian national working in Dubai, on 17/03/2018.
I was due to move to Dubai, and I translated all my official documents into Arabic, had them notarized...etc. because my husband promised to pay me.
I have evidence of this promise in WhatsApp. This amounted to something like 15´000 SEK (Swedish krona), which is not a lot of money. Also, he has not paid my Mehr of merely 1000 SEK.
Q. Can I do anything to claim my money back?
Yours faithfully,
S. K.




Jan 27, 2020
374
Possibility of filing a divorce case from outside the UAE
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Q: My friend is facing so much mental torture from her husband, as a result, she doesn't want to live with him and she plans to go back to her country and file a divorce and complaint against him and his family as they are also involved.
Does she need to complain in Abu Dhabi as well against him before leaving the country to make the case strong??
She has a 1-year old kid, she doesn't have a family here and doesn't want to get involved in any case here. She is booking her ticket by herself as her husband is not booking her a ticket.
Can she go by informing and mentioning her condition over here in the embassy and take action from his own country for her husband?

Oct 16, 2018
426
Can I claim the custody of my daughter in the UAE if I already got it from a Pakistani court?
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Q: I got a divorce in Pakistan and I have a 3-year-old daughter. My daughter and I live in the UAE and my ex-husband is in Pakistan.
He filed a case against me for child abduction/child theft in a Pakistani court. He didn't give me maintenance which the Pakistani court decided.
What does the UAE law say about it?
What are my rights?
I already have custody from the Pakistani court, so can I take custody here too?

Nov 11, 2022
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How can I notify my husband who lives in another country through court to pay alimony?

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Q: Salam Aleykum
I am worried. We requested Dubai Courts Smart Services to notify my husband that he has to pay me temporary alimony.
This is because of my bad financial situation about not having a job and because he abandoned me. But I received the notification now that he was only notified by email, not by phone message.
Maybe he can say that he doesn’t have that email anymore or that he didn’t check (Execution Decision Result: Implemented - Unable to announce by phone).
What can I do?
Thanks!


Dec 22, 2023
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Legal blog
1 available 1 • View allCustody & Guardianship in the UAE 4
An interview-format article covering the topic of custody and guardianship in the UAE. This is from the legal podcast of lawyer Ludmila Yamalova, the founder of Lawgical with LYLAW.
May 6, 2021
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Laws & Regulations
1 available 1 • View allFederal Law No. (28) of 2005 On Personal Status 24
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.
Nov 19, 2005
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After calling me here, they again made interviews and made me work for 1 month. And now, they're telling me I am not capable of work and they are mentally torturing me.
I have given them 1.5 lack in office in India and here they are not paying me any salary. I am going into depression as I am not getting any solutions.
The only solution coming to my mind is a suicide, I don’t have any other options left. I have taken money in interest and people are daily coming to my house for money.
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What happens to the company and its operations if one of the partners is deceased? 0
X Real Estate LLC is a newly formed LLC company in the mainland (DED) with 10 partners, 9 of them Indians and one Pakistani.
As per the new provisions, the company is owned 100 % by expatriate residents. The company’s business is buying and selling real estate in the UAE.
Query:
What happens to the company and other partners, when one partner dies with or without a will?
Can the remaining partners continue to operate the bank account or it will be frozen?
Are the operations of the company frozen? Can the remaining partners carry on the business as usual, buy, rent, and sell the properties?
Can the partners pay the share of the deceased partner to his legal heirs and distribute his share among the remaining partners?
Will this affect the other businesses of the remaining 9 partners in any way?
Feb 27, 2023
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