Hello,
I am writing in this very interesting forum to ask for some advice.
I myself don’t live in Taiwan and have been there on holiday just a couple of times. The problematic situation is related to a very good Korean friend of mine.
She has been married with a Taiwanese man for many years now although they have not been living together much at all since he has been travelling and living abroad a lot for work and she preferred to be in Korea near her parents.
They have a 8 year old girl together and he has just been sending little money to pay for the daughter’s expenses. Basically they have been living almost as a divorced couple and he has never been very interested in their child.
Recently she was contacted by a Vietnamese lady (he has been in Vietnam for the past year for work) who sent her pictures of herself together with her husband and audio recordings of him saying that he will tell his wife he wants to split up (basically good proof of adultery), asking her to let him go.
My friend then contacted her husband for clarification and he said that it was all true and that he wants to split up but not divorce (?!)
She went to a Korean lawyer to ask for advice and he said that the easiest way is to do the divorce in Korea so that the finalized divorce papers can then be sent to Taiwan as well. The problem is that in order to do so, she needs to get a copy of his documents (his passport and his family certificate) but he is not willing to provide them and even his relatives in Taiwan (he is now in Vietnam) are not very ready to help plus they would need an affidavit from him anyway.
He also said that he won’t be sending in any more money for their child.
I was wondering if you could give some advice to solve this mess and also suggest a good lawyer (based in Taiwan who deals with foreigners?) to try to be more “convincing” and perhaps have him to try to contact the husband through his Taiwanese company, since he is going off the radar in Vietnam.
Just to summarize, she needs:
- to get the papers for the divorce from him
- to get some sort alimony for their child.
Thank you