Legal Question in Family Law in

Re: Hindu Law, UAE/Islamic law

And after all this, a Jewish lawyer answers. Actually I haven't the foggiest. But if no one else answers I am sure willing to take a stab at this. For two reasons. One, I have some interest in religious law and two it's too interesting anyway to pass up.

The simple part first, I'll do a little research and see if I can figure out the International jurisdiction. There are three areas here of which I am unfamiliar--Hindu law, Moslem law and International law. See I am the perfect one to answer this.

Assuming I am successful with that, I do have a question, seriously. How important is it that the resolution comport with applicable religious law? I realize you are probably interested primarily in having the U.S. civil court decision upheld. But not knowing anything about the family's religious practices, I don't want to make any assumption. In Judaism there are mechanisms for invoking the jurisdiction of the "Beth Din" or religious court which also decides matters under the jurisdiction of civil courts. In some quarters a matter resolved in civil court but not in the Beth Din, would be regarded as having no validity. On the other hand I imagine most (although there has been some litigation on this point, the outcome of which I am uncertain) Beth Din matters would not be cognizable in a civil court, a proposition probably not held in a country such as Dubai.

I'll keep the original post for when I am able to find out something.