Q: My husband refuses to provide maintenance for wife and child. Is there any organisation in Dubai/UAE that helps to enforce maintenance payments to spouse and child?

Q: Dear Sir, My husband and I are separated. I have a 7-month-old baby to whom he provided no support whatsoever, however, he is holding all her IDs with the intention of harming me. Would it be possible to open a case and ask to be the guardian and custodian of the baby, so that all the rights will be with me and the so-called father will have no responsibilities nor rights over the child? Thank you. Best regards, Fatma

Q: I am a Hindu married in India in Dec 2017. I came immediately to Dubai with my husband who is an NRI born brought up in Dubai. Soon I was pregnant, was sent to India for abortion against my will around Jan 2018. I came back to Dubai but my husband who stays with his parents insisted I go back for a few more days to India and sent me back around mid-February 2018, after which he cancelled my visa since he has abandoned me and wants a divorce. He says he has no money and cannot afford a separate house, his father is wealthy but he is a self-made person. My parents are refusing now to keep me any further at their home in India. How can I stay now, even forcibly, with my husband in Dubai? My inlaws who are hand in glove in the matter with my husband say that it's their house and will permit only their son, not his wife. In such circumstances, what are my available options to legally force myself to stay with my husband? No divorce petition is filed as yet and I will never give a divorce to him.

Q: Hello, My sister is married to an Indian who is working in Dubai for the last 6-7 years. He has been completely cut off from his wife and 1-year-old kid for the last 3 months. He writes in emails that he doesn’t want to continue and that he is going to cancel my sister's residence visa. What options do we have in this case? My sister wants that he should continue the marriage but his activities do not suggest so. Is he not liable for anything? What rights do we have to pressurize him or in the future should we apply for abandonment/divorce in India or Dubai?

Q: I want to divorce my husband after 11 years of marriage due to incompatibility issues. We have an almost 10-year-old daughter and we are both Indian Christians. How will the proceedings be and who will get custody of our daughter?

Q: السلام عليكم، هل يمكن لأب أن يُعفَى من نفقات الصغير إذا ثبت لمحاكم دبي أن الصغير يحمل جنسية توفر له تعليم مجاني وعلاج مجاني وراتب شهري من الحكومة حتى سن العمل؟

س: السلام عليكم، كم تبلغ نفقة الحاضن والمحضون بالدرهم في حالة الطلاق إذا كان معاش الطليق 49 ألف درهم إماراتي؟

س: السلام عليكم، هل يمكن رفع قضية نفقة بدون طلاق في الإمارات؟ و كيف يمكن للزوجة أن تطالب بمسكن مستقل عن بيت أهل الزوج؟ علمًا بأنها تسكن بملحق بفيلا مع أهل الزوج.

س: السلام عليكم، بكم تقدر نفقة المتعة ونفقة العدة؟ لم تحدث إحالة للمحكمة، الأمر فقط داخل التوجيه الأسري وبالاتفاق. كم المبلغ؟ للعلم راتب الشخص 48 ألف و500 درهم. فترة الزواج 12 سنة، ومعي ابنة فقط عمرها 10 سنوات.

Q: Good day everyone. We got married under Sharia Law in Dubai Courts and it is now 3 years with no kids. I have been suffering and enduring physical and verbal abuse throughout the marriage. But I just continued to stay in the hopes that my husband would change. I never thought of divorce because I was blinded by love and the concept of keeping our marriage sacred and with respect. Now, my husband has filed for divorce and his reason is our marriage will not work because of what he did last year (adultery). I felt so blank because I am jobless at the moment and can't work as I am suffering emotionally and mentally. He will just leave me like this. My last resort is to be compensated for the damages I got, emotionally and physically. For proof, I have WhatsApp messages, a police report of the physical abuse (case closed), and a paper that shows a booking with his name and a woman when he traveled to a different country (to which I found out about the adultery). Please help me.

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.