Damian Reilly talks to Alexandra Tribe, specialist Dubai-based divorce lawyer about the rules of divorce in the UAE.
Divorce is an ugly word, don't you think? As ugly as the aftermath of love gets. What was Eddie Murphy's joke about marriage? That's it: "Don't get married. Find someone you really hate and buy them a house."
Except in the UAE, do you really have to buy your erstwhile lover a house? In fact, do you have to give them anything at all? Like many areas of UAE law, expats seem to be hazy when it comes to the specifics of the divorce process here.
There seems to be a feeling that the playing field, or theatre of battle, is not only very different to how it is in, say, European countries, but that it is also heavily weighted in favour of men.
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