Q: Dear All, In this scenario, a woman is pregnant before marriage. Are there any complications with getting a birth certificate here in UAE? Will they give a birth certificate even though she got pregnant first before getting married? Really appreciate who will answer. Thank you!

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: I'm not married to my son's father. He paid child support before the baby was born, and stopped one month before his birth. What can I do to claim child support from the father for my 9-month old son? He told me I won't be able to do anything because we are not married. He is from Kenya and I'm from South Africa, and he works for a big company in Abu Dhabi.

Q: With the recent changes in the UAE law regarding children conceived out of wedlock, I wonder how this would affect a theoretical scenario. The scenario is as follows. Let's assume that a happily married couple, residing in Dubai with resident visas from the husband's company, come to know that the wife is pregnant as a result of a foolish and regrettable affair with a third party. Assuming both the husband and wife agree to continue the pregnancy and the husband agrees to acknowledge and adopt the child after birth and that their medical insurance covers private birth in the UAE, what are the legal considerations around this process? The husband is British and his wife is Philipino. Any input would be appreciated.

Q: Can I come back to the UAE after being deported because of a love crime? I got pregnant in the UAE with my Pakistani boyfriend. I went to jail and got deported. How many years before I can come back and enter the UAE again?

Q: Hi I am an Indian citizen girl, I was living with a Pakistani guy when I got pregnant and we decided to marry. I wanted court marriage since I am a Hindu and he is Muslim but he wanted nikah and later will do court marriage also. So last April he called some people from Karachi online video, I don't know who they were, and asked me for nikah. I said yes and then they said papers would be sent via courier to sign. After two days of this online thing, only he physically hit me and abused me so badly that I called the police also, but in front of the police finally he said sorry and I also let it go. After that, I never signed those papers and thought to watch his behavior which later turned bad day by day. Even financially also he was using my house, my car, my everything... Now this November I'm blessed with a baby boy and I want an Indian passport for him, but this man is now creating problems. Please help me get the birth certificate of the child.

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.

An interview-format article covering the topic of the new amendments to the laws 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.