Ah but how people criticise me without undestanding.
Clearly EVERY Dominicano is not the same there clearly must be (or are) some very good Dominicanos (like my 9th lawyer - the first to actually defend me)
BUT
Just in Constanza, almost all the foreigners who lived her in recent times have suffered the identical issues, with ex-spouses destroying their lives, gaining more than 50% of their lives and, in some cases even gaining 100% (literally) and with the lawyers and Fiscalia doing little or nothing to defend the foreigner?s rights.
Here, my experience of the Fiscalia is that it is never going to assist me but will bend over backwards to assist my ex-wife My lawyer (the 9th one) investigated the Fiscalia?s treatment of my case and agrees with my interpretation. (For example, I received approximately 3 "citas" a week for several months This literally exhaused my first two lawyers who therefore abandoned my case. Each cita proved (to judges) to be based on lies but this didn?t stop the fiscals from sending the damned things, even when some of the charges were very obviously lies!). In Constanza, if you want to send a cita, it usually takes a week or more and several visits to a Fiscal. In my case, my wife managed to send each one in approximately 30 minutes. In Constanza, to send the Police to arrest someone you need to have robbed a bank, killed someone or done something REALLY serious and failed to respond to 3 requests to appear tbefore a Fiscal. In my case, the Police were sent to look for and arrest me twice, despite my having committed no offence (EVER!), in each case the Police being set within seconds of my wife requesting it!!!
I was accused of attempted murder (literally) despite the complete absence of any evidence; on the night that I reputedly intended to murder by wife, she chose to sleep in our house, where I also lived, and failed to tell anyone that she was in fear for her life (e.g. she didn?t phone her lawyer, her family, the Police, the Fiscals) - even the Fiscals had to laugh when they understood this!!!). Once this got to ajudge, the accusation was thrown out based on the complete absence of any evidence.
Various lawyers demanded money to defend me and then did nothing (although paid), thus leading to me eventually having had 9 lawyers to manage just one divorce.
The vast majority of Dominicanos (both sexes) that I have met, and I?ve met many from all parts of the DR, advised me never to marry They say that there is no reason to marry and that, in this country, "money has no friends". These are not my words, they are Dominicano.
Yes, bad marriages for wong reasons can happen anywhere But how many times does it happen here!!! The Dominicanos tell me that here, people will "divorce" if someone new comes along with a little more money Again, these are NOT my words, they are Dominicano!!!
I have officials in Constanza (Government officials) who warn me NOT to trust ANY Dominicano!!! This is not a situation I like nor one I expected nor one that my culture finds acceptable. But it is what REAL Dominicanos REALLY say to me.
And although I haven?t read all the old posts in DR1, I seem to remember that after I arrived here (4 plus years ago, already married), I read lots of DR1 horror stories about marriage here - the people who riculed in these old posts were the people who said that anyone who marries here should have read DR1 first!!!
So my warning stands. It?s meant sincerely based on what really happened and what other foreigners here have told me happend both to them and to more foreigners that they know. (In other countries where I?ve lived, including countries smaller than the DR so where I knew even more of the population, I never encountered even one such story!).
Even my Dominicano bank advises me never to marry a Dominicano!