How long does it take me to get a divorce?
No lawyer can set a specific and precise time frame for how long a divorce case may take before the Dubai Courts Family Courts.   It may be useful to mention here that the issue of divorce passes through two important and necessary stages.   Firstly, we have the stage of the Family Guidance Department, in which this department seeks through a social mediator to resolve the conflict amicably, and this stage ends quickly in the absence of a clear intention or desire to settle the matter on the part of one of the parties, while it takes a long time as long as it is There is seriousness on both sides in settling the matter by concluding an agreement or closing the file to resolve the dispute amicably.   Secondly, comes the stage of litigation before the Family Court after the failure of reconciliation efforts before the Family Guidance Department, a stage that passes through three degrees of litigation according to the laws of the Emirate of Dubai (the Court of First Instance, the Court of Appeal, and the Court of Cassation "Supreme Court of the Emirate of Dubai").   In the stage of litigation with its three levels, each case differs from the other in its circumstances and facts and in the procedures that each judge needs to resort to, for example (opening an investigation, listening to witnesses, inquiring from specific official bodies, and interrogating the two parties personally by the judge).   The litigation procedures may end in months, and may exceed the period of the year, as the matter is largely relative. For example, the case may end before a court of first instance, and the judgment becomes final if neither of the two parties appeals against it within the legal period allotted for that.   This is in addition to the fact that the UAE law periodically and continuously tends to speed up the litigation procedures, and this is shown through the amendments that the UAE legislator is keen to issue from time to time.