Law of Civil Procedure

The following shall be excluded from the application of Article 36 of this Law: 1.A claimant of alimony shall have the right to file a lawsuit with the court having jurisdiction over the place of residence of either the claimant or defendant. 2.A woman, in marital matters or matters relating to custody, visitation or deprivation of marriage by a guardian, shall have the right to file the lawsuit in either her town or that of the defendant. If the court hears the lawsuit in the plaintiff’s town, it shall succeed the defendant’s town court to consider her lawsuit. If the lawsuit is transferred, the defendant shall be summoned to appear before the court with which the lawsuit is filed in order to proceed therewith. If the defendant abstains, the lawsuit shall be heard in absentia and if the lawsuit is not transferred, the court shall dismiss it without summoning the defendant. 3.A plaintiff in lawsuits arising from traffic accidents occurring in a town other than that of the defendant shall have the right to file the lawsuit with the court within whose jurisdiction the place of the accident or defendant’s place of residence falls.