Court obligates GCC citizen to pay alimony to wife, daughters in Dubai

Mohammed Yaseen, Staff Reporter

The Dubai Court of Cassation obligated a GCC national to pay again the alimony to his wife and children, after the Court of First Instance accepted the husband’s demand to cancel the alimony for rent and tuition fees for his four daughters, and the Appellate Court upheld the ruling.

The husband claimed in a lawsuit he filed in the Court of First Instance against his ex-wife, demanding the cancellation of her right to receive the amount of renting a house and his children’s tuition and other expenses decided by the Family Court.

According to the wife's lawyer, the husband claimed that his ex-wife was not entitled to housing expenses, because she owned a house, and also was not entitled to the expenses of two of his daughters, as they were studying in government schools for free.

In addition, the husband claimed that one of the daughters worked for a government body and received a monthly salary which sufficed her needs.

The verdict of the Court of First Instance and the verdict of the appellate court were overturned on the basis that the wife did not own a house and that she got the house where she lived via a housing loan from the Mohammed Bin Rashid Housing Establishment and it can be returned to the Establishment if she did not commit to paying the prescribed installments, the lawyer pointed out.

He also said in an appeal submitted to the Court of Cassation that two of the plaintiff’s daughters were of determination who required special care and expenses which exceeded the amount decided, and that the other girl was working for a government body on the basis of a temporary contract with a monthly reward of no more than Dhs10,000.

The Court of Cassation overturned the appealed ruling and rejected the husband's request to cancel the housing rent for the ex wife and the monthly expenses of his daughters.