All About The New UAE Law on Relationships Out of Wedlock
- Publish date: Sunday، 28 November 2021
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His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, has approved a wide-ranging reform of the country’s legal system.
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The draft of new laws and legislative amendments came during the "Year of the 50th" with over 40 laws are included in the changes, which together represent the largest legal reform in the young nation’s 50-year history.
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Crime and Punishment Law
The new legislation offers enhanced protections for women and domestic servants, strengthens public safety and security provisions and eases restrictions on extra-marital relationships and it will be fully enacted starting from January 2nd, 2022.
Consensual Relationships Out of Wedlock
The new law effectively decriminalizes consensual relationships out of wedlock, providing that any child conceived as a result of the relationship is acknowledged and will be cared for. Any couple conceiving a child out of wedlock will be required to marry or singly or jointly acknowledge the child and provide identification papers and travel documents in accordance with the laws of the country of which either is a national, considering the applicable laws of that nation.
Failing this, a criminal case would introduce a prison term of two years for both correspondents.