US citizen to pay Dhs1.44 million alimony after dropping custody of his youngsters in Dubai

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Mohammed Yaseen, staff reporter

The Dubai Personal Status Court ruled that an American businessman pays alimony estimated at Dhs1.44 million to his ex-wife and around Dhs1 million to his children, as well as covering accommodation, study and health insurance costs.

The businessman appealed the verdict, but the court upheld the previous verdict.

However, the Court of Cassation partially overturned the judgment under appeal and ruled that three quarters of the alimony was payable.

According to lawyer Badr Khamis, the divorced businessman’s attorney, his client filed a divorce and custody case, asking the court to order her ex-husband to pay for any damages suffered.

“The court ruled that the woman should divorce her husband and take care of the children,” he said.

It also obliged the businessman to pay his ex-wife Dh1.44 million, provide decent housing, a driver and maid, and pay all bills and his children’s school fees, he added.

Khamis explained that the husband has claimed that he no longer has property or money because he transferred everything he has, plus two luxury cars and real estate investments in the UAE, to his ex-wife based on a law-enacted law, when she was his wife The United States requires foreign citizens to pay taxes on their property.

The estranged woman said she filed for divorce because her husband had an affair with another woman that made him neglect his children and leave home.

She added that she has chosen to keep what was freely granted to her by her husband while reiterating her call for him to be required to provide support for her and their children and custody of the children extended until marriage.

The woman said she has evidence of her husband’s infidelity, abandonment of her and failure to pay for her children’s expenses in recent years.

She submitted paperwork showing she had to pay for his children’s college tuition and bills for the mansion he owned before their split.