Q: I paid my wife a discretionary lump sum & agreed to pay AED 6k monthly. She has now remarried & had another baby with her new husband. I have my daughter three times per week to live with me & pay for overseas holidays...etc., that she has with me 2-3 times per year. What are the prospects of having these monthly payments reduced (say to AED 3k or less) or even cancelled so we each pay for our own costs of jointly raising our daughter?

Q: Hi. My ex-wife and I (both Muslim Pakistani citizens) were married in Pakistan and moved to the USA for 2 years. We did not have any children together. I then moved back to Pakistan and got a divorce under Pakistani Sharia law under which I paid her back mahr/dowry. My wife stayed back in the USA and got a divorce under USA law and USA court awarded her spouse alimony and some assets that were under my name. Now, would my wife be able to enforce any USA divorce claims against me in Dubai, even though I have fulfilled all of my obligations under Sharia (by paying back mahr/dowry)?

Q: Hi, My husband and I are non-Muslim ex-pats in Dubai. During my husband's divorce 3 years ago, his ex-wife demanded custody of their son and alimony monthly payments of 30K, which the judge granted. He did not have money for his own lawyer. He runs his own small company and is now in deep financial debt due to the payments. We have tried our best to keep up the payments (my salary supports us, as he gives most of his earnings to his ex-wife). She has threatened repeatedly to have him arrested if he is late/short on payments or does his best to honour the court order. She remarried 3 months ago, to a man that is financially well off, lives in a great house, goes on holidays and refuses to work despite being qualified. She is now on her new husband's visa. We would like to understand if her remarriage can help us to reduce and renegotiate the payments to a more reasonable, sustainable amount. He wants to support his child, but we face certain bankruptcy and his company is failing.

Q: Dear Sirs. Would like to ask. Until what age does a MUSLIM father pay child support? When does it end?

There are rights and obligations for both parties of the marriage contract arise as a result of divorce, which often disputed by the spouses. Here we will explain the due alimony and its types for the wife (divorced - widow) and children after divorce in accordance with the UAE Personal Status Law, Federal Law No. 28 of 2005 and its explanatory memorandum.

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.