The courts of the State have the competence to hear cases related to Personal Status filed against a foreigner who has no domicile, residence, or place of work in the State, in the following cases: 1. If the case is an objection to a marriage contract to be concluded in the State. 2. If the case is related to a request to revoke or annul a marriage contract, or to divorce or repudiation, and the case is filed by a State citizen wife or a wife who has lost the citizenship of the State, provided that she has a domicile or place of residence in the State, or if it is filed by a wife who has a domicile or place of residence in the State against her husband who had a domicile, place of residence or place of work in the State, provided that the husband has abandoned his wife and made his domicile or place of residence or place of work abroad, has been deported from the State or if his domicile abroad is unknown. 3. If the case is related to a request for alimony for parents, wife, or a minor, who have a domicile, place of residence, or place of work in the State. 4. If the case concerns the lineage of a minor who has a domicile or place of residence in the State, or concerns a matter of guardianship over a person or property, provided that the minor or the person to be interdicted has a domicile or place of residence in the State, or that the absent person’s most recent domicile, place of residence or place of work was there. 5. If the case is related to a personal status issue, and the plaintiff is a citizen or a foreigner with a domicile, place of residence, or place of work in the State, where the respondent does not have a known domicile or place of residence abroad or if the national law is the applicable law in the State. 6. If there are multiple respondents and one of them has a domicile, place of residence, or place of work in the State. 7. If he has a chosen domicile in the State.
Interpretation and application must be checked against the official text and current version.