His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Presidential Affairs and Chairman of the Judicial Department in Abu Dhabi, issued Resolution No. 8 of 2022 approving the executive regulations for the procedures of the Civil Marriage and Divorce Law No. 14 of 2021 in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
The Undersecretary of the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department, Counselor Yousef Saeed Al-Abri, said that the procedural regulation includes all the details related to the organization of judicial procedures related to the law of civil marriage and divorce in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, a law that provides a modern and advanced concept of civil family laws for foreigners in accordance with international best practices.
He explained that the regulation includes 52 articles dealing with the jurisdiction of the Civil Family Matters Court, which was established in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, to adjudicate requests and disputes related to civil marriage and its effects, such as civil divorce, joint custody, financial rights resulting from divorce, wills, civil inheritance, proof of lineage, adoption and other matters related to the personal status of foreigners. .
The second chapter of the decision deals with civil marriage procedures and conditions for its convening, the most important of which is the absence of a requirement for the presence of a guardian for the wife and the absence of witnesses, in addition to making the civil marriage contract available to tourists and residents outside the emirate or outside the country, a service that the Emirate of Abu Dhabi provides exclusively in the region.
The third chapter includes civil divorce procedures or what is known as divorce without harm, which is based on equality between the right of the wife or husband to sign the divorce without prejudice to the wife’s financial rights related to the divorce, from the first session without the need to prove the harm or justify the reasons for the separation, allowing the completion of Procedures are easy and fast in order to reduce quarrels and discord between spouses, especially if there are children between them.
Article 13 of the decision deals with the procedures for submitting a civil divorce, as it stipulates that the applicant must fill out the bilingual application form prepared for this, without the need for the assistance of a lawyer, and the defendant may object to the jurisdiction of the court only, without other substantive defenses, at a later date 10 working days before the date of the session scheduled for the issuance of the divorce, and the court issues the divorce ruling from the first session after 30 days from the date of approval of the application.
?Articles No. 15, 16 and 17 included the financial rights resulting from civil divorce and the court’s discretion to compel any of the spouses to pay a lump sum to compensate the other party after the divorce and the accounting criteria on which the court relies, such as the number of years of marriage, the age of the spouses, and the extent to which any of them contributed to the failure of the relationship marital or material or moral harm suffered by any of them, and the previous or subsequent profit they missed.
As for the fourth chapter, it deals with joint custody of children, which is automatically judged in the divorce ruling equally between the father and mother, the method of rotating and dividing joint custody between them, whether on a weekly, bi-monthly or monthly basis, and how to object to it if the reasons are available, or a request to waive custody or isolate the partner from Joint custody, whether legal custody or physical custody or both.
The regulation, in Article 33, indicated cases of dismissal of any of the father or mother and the forfeiture of his right to joint custody, whether temporarily or continuously, in the event that any of the cases that harm the interest of the child are realized, with an indication of how to request the intervention of the court when no decision regarding the child has yet been agreed upon. The occurrence of divorce, as well as the organization of the child’s travel during the period of joint custody.
And between the fifth chapter, the special rules for considering civil family lawsuits because its procedures differ from the procedures followed in the Civil Procedures Law, as the case is presented directly to the court to issue a ruling from the first session without submitting to family guidance, and the court procedures are characterized as being bilingual, whether in court forms or Oral procedures. The court has the discretion to complete the litigation procedures in English if the two parties to the lawsuit do not speak Arabic, provided that the statement of the lawsuit and judgment is attached in both Arabic and English.
Chapter VI included the procedures for appealing judgments and implementation procedures, where the judgment issued by the court is final and enforceable as soon as it is issued if the amount awarded is less than 500,000 dirhams, in cases of alimony and financial rights following divorce.
His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Presidential Affairs and Chairman of the Judicial Department in Abu Dhabi, issued Resolution No. 8 of 2022 approving the executive regulations for the procedures of the Civil Marriage and Divorce Law No. 14 of 2021 in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
The Undersecretary of the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department, Counselor Yousef Saeed Al-Abri, said that the procedural regulation includes all the details related to the organization of judicial procedures related to the law of civil marriage and divorce in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, a law that provides a modern and advanced concept of civil family laws for foreigners in accordance with international best practices.
He explained that the regulation includes 52 articles dealing with the jurisdiction of the Civil Family Matters Court, which was established in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, to adjudicate requests and disputes related to civil marriage and its effects, such as civil divorce, joint custody, financial rights resulting from divorce, wills, civil inheritance, proof of lineage, adoption and other matters related to the personal status of foreigners. .
The second chapter of the decision deals with civil marriage procedures and conditions for its convening, the most important of which is the absence of a requirement for the presence of a guardian for the wife and the absence of witnesses, in addition to making the civil marriage contract available to tourists and residents outside the emirate or outside the country, a service that the Emirate of Abu Dhabi provides exclusively in the region.
The third chapter includes civil divorce procedures or what is known as divorce without harm, which is based on equality between the right of the wife or husband to sign the divorce without prejudice to the wife’s financial rights related to the divorce, from the first session without the need to prove the harm or justify the reasons for the separation, allowing the completion of Procedures are easy and fast in order to reduce quarrels and discord between spouses, especially if there are children between them.
Article 13 of the decision deals with the procedures for submitting a civil divorce, as it stipulates that the applicant must fill out the bilingual application form prepared for this, without the need for the assistance of a lawyer, and the defendant may object to the jurisdiction of the court only, without other substantive defenses, at a later date 10 working days before the date of the session scheduled for the issuance of the divorce, and the court issues the divorce ruling from the first session after 30 days from the date of approval of the application.
?Articles No. 15, 16 and 17 included the financial rights resulting from civil divorce and the court’s discretion to compel any of the spouses to pay a lump sum to compensate the other party after the divorce and the accounting criteria on which the court relies, such as the number of years of marriage, the age of the spouses, and the extent to which any of them contributed to the failure of the relationship marital or material or moral harm suffered by any of them, and the previous or subsequent profit they missed.
As for the fourth chapter, it deals with joint custody of children, which is automatically judged in the divorce ruling equally between the father and mother, the method of rotating and dividing joint custody between them, whether on a weekly, bi-monthly or monthly basis, and how to object to it if the reasons are available, or a request to waive custody or isolate the partner from Joint custody, whether legal custody or physical custody or both.
The regulation, in Article 33, indicated cases of dismissal of any of the father or mother and the forfeiture of his right to joint custody, whether temporarily or continuously, in the event that any of the cases that harm the interest of the child are realized, with an indication of how to request the intervention of the court when no decision regarding the child has yet been agreed upon. The occurrence of divorce, as well as the organization of the child’s travel during the period of joint custody.
And between the fifth chapter, the special rules for considering civil family lawsuits because its procedures differ from the procedures followed in the Civil Procedures Law, as the case is presented directly to the court to issue a ruling from the first session without submitting to family guidance, and the court procedures are characterized as being bilingual, whether in court forms or Oral procedures. The court has the discretion to complete the litigation procedures in English if the two parties to the lawsuit do not speak Arabic, provided that the statement of the lawsuit and judgment is attached in both Arabic and English.
Chapter VI included the procedures for appealing judgments and implementation procedures, where the judgment issued by the court is final and enforceable as soon as it is issued if the amount awarded is less than 500,000 dirhams, in cases of alimony and financial rights following divorce.
His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Presidential Affairs and Chairman of the Judicial Department in Abu Dhabi, issued Resolution No. 8 of 2022 approving the executive regulations for the procedures of the Civil Marriage and Divorce Law No. 14 of 2021 in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
The Undersecretary of the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department, Counselor Yousef Saeed Al-Abri, said that the procedural regulation includes all the details related to the organization of judicial procedures related to the law of civil marriage and divorce in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, a law that provides a modern and advanced concept of civil family laws for foreigners in accordance with international best practices.
He explained that the regulation includes 52 articles dealing with the jurisdiction of the Civil Family Matters Court, which was established in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, to adjudicate requests and disputes related to civil marriage and its effects, such as civil divorce, joint custody, financial rights resulting from divorce, wills, civil inheritance, proof of lineage, adoption and other matters related to the personal status of foreigners. .
The second chapter of the decision deals with civil marriage procedures and conditions for its convening, the most important of which is the absence of a requirement for the presence of a guardian for the wife and the absence of witnesses, in addition to making the civil marriage contract available to tourists and residents outside the emirate or outside the country, a service that the Emirate of Abu Dhabi provides exclusively in the region.
The third chapter includes civil divorce procedures or what is known as divorce without harm, which is based on equality between the right of the wife or husband to sign the divorce without prejudice to the wife’s financial rights related to the divorce, from the first session without the need to prove the harm or justify the reasons for the separation, allowing the completion of Procedures are easy and fast in order to reduce quarrels and discord between spouses, especially if there are children between them.
Article 13 of the decision deals with the procedures for submitting a civil divorce, as it stipulates that the applicant must fill out the bilingual application form prepared for this, without the need for the assistance of a lawyer, and the defendant may object to the jurisdiction of the court only, without other substantive defenses, at a later date 10 working days before the date of the session scheduled for the issuance of the divorce, and the court issues the divorce ruling from the first session after 30 days from the date of approval of the application.
?Articles No. 15, 16 and 17 included the financial rights resulting from civil divorce and the court’s discretion to compel any of the spouses to pay a lump sum to compensate the other party after the divorce and the accounting criteria on which the court relies, such as the number of years of marriage, the age of the spouses, and the extent to which any of them contributed to the failure of the relationship marital or material or moral harm suffered by any of them, and the previous or subsequent profit they missed.
As for the fourth chapter, it deals with joint custody of children, which is automatically judged in the divorce ruling equally between the father and mother, the method of rotating and dividing joint custody between them, whether on a weekly, bi-monthly or monthly basis, and how to object to it if the reasons are available, or a request to waive custody or isolate the partner from Joint custody, whether legal custody or physical custody or both.
The regulation, in Article 33, indicated cases of dismissal of any of the father or mother and the forfeiture of his right to joint custody, whether temporarily or continuously, in the event that any of the cases that harm the interest of the child are realized, with an indication of how to request the intervention of the court when no decision regarding the child has yet been agreed upon. The occurrence of divorce, as well as the organization of the child’s travel during the period of joint custody.
And between the fifth chapter, the special rules for considering civil family lawsuits because its procedures differ from the procedures followed in the Civil Procedures Law, as the case is presented directly to the court to issue a ruling from the first session without submitting to family guidance, and the court procedures are characterized as being bilingual, whether in court forms or Oral procedures. The court has the discretion to complete the litigation procedures in English if the two parties to the lawsuit do not speak Arabic, provided that the statement of the lawsuit and judgment is attached in both Arabic and English.
Chapter VI included the procedures for appealing judgments and implementation procedures, where the judgment issued by the court is final and enforceable as soon as it is issued if the amount awarded is less than 500,000 dirhams, in cases of alimony and financial rights following divorce.
His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Presidential Affairs and Chairman of the Judicial Department in Abu Dhabi, issued Resolution No. 8 of 2022 approving the executive regulations for the procedures of the Civil Marriage and Divorce Law No. 14 of 2021 in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
The Undersecretary of the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department, Counselor Yousef Saeed Al-Abri, said that the procedural regulation includes all the details related to the organization of judicial procedures related to the law of civil marriage and divorce in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, a law that provides a modern and advanced concept of civil family laws for foreigners in accordance with international best practices.
He explained that the regulation includes 52 articles dealing with the jurisdiction of the Civil Family Matters Court, which was established in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, to adjudicate requests and disputes related to civil marriage and its effects, such as civil divorce, joint custody, financial rights resulting from divorce, wills, civil inheritance, proof of lineage, adoption and other matters related to the personal status of foreigners. .
The second chapter of the decision deals with civil marriage procedures and conditions for its convening, the most important of which is the absence of a requirement for the presence of a guardian for the wife and the absence of witnesses, in addition to making the civil marriage contract available to tourists and residents outside the emirate or outside the country, a service that the Emirate of Abu Dhabi provides exclusively in the region.
The third chapter includes civil divorce procedures or what is known as divorce without harm, which is based on equality between the right of the wife or husband to sign the divorce without prejudice to the wife’s financial rights related to the divorce, from the first session without the need to prove the harm or justify the reasons for the separation, allowing the completion of Procedures are easy and fast in order to reduce quarrels and discord between spouses, especially if there are children between them.
Article 13 of the decision deals with the procedures for submitting a civil divorce, as it stipulates that the applicant must fill out the bilingual application form prepared for this, without the need for the assistance of a lawyer, and the defendant may object to the jurisdiction of the court only, without other substantive defenses, at a later date 10 working days before the date of the session scheduled for the issuance of the divorce, and the court issues the divorce ruling from the first session after 30 days from the date of approval of the application.
?Articles No. 15, 16 and 17 included the financial rights resulting from civil divorce and the court’s discretion to compel any of the spouses to pay a lump sum to compensate the other party after the divorce and the accounting criteria on which the court relies, such as the number of years of marriage, the age of the spouses, and the extent to which any of them contributed to the failure of the relationship marital or material or moral harm suffered by any of them, and the previous or subsequent profit they missed.
As for the fourth chapter, it deals with joint custody of children, which is automatically judged in the divorce ruling equally between the father and mother, the method of rotating and dividing joint custody between them, whether on a weekly, bi-monthly or monthly basis, and how to object to it if the reasons are available, or a request to waive custody or isolate the partner from Joint custody, whether legal custody or physical custody or both.
The regulation, in Article 33, indicated cases of dismissal of any of the father or mother and the forfeiture of his right to joint custody, whether temporarily or continuously, in the event that any of the cases that harm the interest of the child are realized, with an indication of how to request the intervention of the court when no decision regarding the child has yet been agreed upon. The occurrence of divorce, as well as the organization of the child’s travel during the period of joint custody.
And between the fifth chapter, the special rules for considering civil family lawsuits because its procedures differ from the procedures followed in the Civil Procedures Law, as the case is presented directly to the court to issue a ruling from the first session without submitting to family guidance, and the court procedures are characterized as being bilingual, whether in court forms or Oral procedures. The court has the discretion to complete the litigation procedures in English if the two parties to the lawsuit do not speak Arabic, provided that the statement of the lawsuit and judgment is attached in both Arabic and English.
Chapter VI included the procedures for appealing judgments and implementation procedures, where the judgment issued by the court is final and enforceable as soon as it is issued if the amount awarded is less than 500,000 dirhams, in cases of alimony and financial rights following divorce.
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