The Courts shall have the jurisdiction over the foreigner who has no place of residence or domicile in the State in the following cases: 1.If the foreigner has an elected domicile in the State; 2.If the legal proceeding is relating to property in the State, inheritance share of a national citizen or an estate opened in the State; 3.If the legal proceeding is relating to an obligation that is executed or performed, or required to be performed, in the State, a contract required to be attested in the State, an incident taking place in the State, or a bankruptcy process established by any Court of the State; 4.If the legal proceeding is instituted by a wife who has a place of residence in the State against her husband who had a place of residence therein; 5.If the legal proceeding is relating to the maintenance expenses of either parent, a wife, an interdicted person, a young child or his / her parentage, guardianship over the property or persons, in the event that the party claiming the maintenance expenses, the wife, the young child or the interdicted person has a place of residence in the State; 6.If the legal proceeding is relating to personal status matters, and the Plaintiff is a UAE national or foreigner having a place of residence in the State, if the Defendant has no known address abroad, or where the national law is applicable to the legal proceeding; or 7.If any of the Defendants has a place of residence or domicile in the State.
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