Can i secure a legal separation even am out of the...

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We would like to inform you that If you are referring to a divorce in the Philippines, you would like to register a divorce in the UAE it is a matter of personal status and divorce can be registered in the UAE but your embassy must approve the divorce registration application.

Article 21 of the UAE Civil Procedure Law

Provides for:

 Article (21):

The courts shall have jurisdiction to examine the actions against the foreigner who has no residence or domicile in the state in the following cases:

1) If he had an elected domicile.

2) If the action is related to real estates in the state, a citizen's heritage, or an open estate therein.

3) If the action is concerned with an obligation concluded, executed, or its execution was conditioned in the state or related with a contract required to be authenticated therein or with an incident occurred therein or bankruptcy declared at one of its courts.

4) If the action has been prosecuted from a wife who has a residence in the state, against her husband who had a residence therein.

5) If the action is concerned with an alimony of one of the parents or the wife or with a sequestered or with a minor, or with his relationship or with a custody on fund or on person, in case that the claimer of the alimony, the wife, the minor or the sequestered has a residence in the state.

6) If the action is concerned with the civil status and the plaintiff is a citizen or a foreigner who has residence in the state, provided that the defendant had not a determined residence abroad or the national law is imperatively applicable on the action.

7) If one of the defendant has a residence or domicile in the state.

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