People can find themselves as expatriates for many reasons. Businesses often send their best executives to a foreign country to set up satellite companies. Students sometimes choose to continue their education in another country where they have more opportunity. There are the people who just fall in love with a foreign country and decide to relocate there. For whatever reason, many people find themselves residing in countries other than the one they grew up in. An expat divorce often occurs because the spouse, usually the wife, wants to go back home and often wants to take the children with her. In most cases, she can expect a difficult custody battle.
Spouses can find themselves living in foreign countries because of business or marriage. A wife may accompany her husband on an extended business trip. A foreign student may end up marrying and staying in the husband's country. The spouses of expatriates may have trouble adapting over an extended period of time.
Spouses of expatriates often experience trouble acclimating themselves to a new country and culture. Their children can become their buffer against cultural, moral, or religious views that are foreign to them. It's very easy for these women to end up lonely and isolated from society.
Unhappiness over an extended period of time can cause a rift between partners. The mother may decide that she wants to leave the country and return to her own with the children. Fathers in this case often fear that their children may disappear completely.
Courts tend to resolve custody issues with the interests of the children coming first. They may not allow children to be uprooted and removed from their comfortable environment just because the mother wants to leave the country.
When one spouse feels compelled to leave the country and the other compelled to stay, an expat divorce may be inevitable. In all events, children should be spared a nasty custody battle. With proper professional representation on all sides, these matters can and should be resolved fairly and amicably.
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