UAE family matters Q&As: can I take my children back home with me after divorce?

In my legal advice column this week in The National newspaper, I advise an expatriate who is going through a divorce on what legal grounds he has to go back to his country with his children, overriding the presumption that his estranged wife will be granted custody of the couple’s two young children. Under UAE law, moving to your home country is one situation that could allow the father to lawfully gain custody but there are several provisos to this ground, as outlined in the article below.