Our team of solicitors built their reputation on their legal knowledge and in handling complex and ground-breaking Family and Inheritance Law cases. We deal with inheritance claims arising from all sorts of treatment. So, apart from being experts in the law, we have huge knowledge about Family and Inheritance Law, and the way in which they should be resolved.

Our team are also expert in taking care of the downside of the law which affect women. "The male guardian system" which means all females must have a male guardian, typically a father, brother, or husband. This is under the Islamic laws.

In Islamic law, only relatives with a legitimate blood relationship to the deceased are entitled to inherit. Thus, illegitimate children and adopted children have no shares in inheritance. All the jurists agree that intentional or unjustifiable killing would exclude a person from inheritance.

The principal source of law of inheritance in UAE is Shariah and on the basis of which several Federal Laws have been promulgated. In addition, main laws governing succession are Federal Law Number 5 of 1985 concerning the Civil Transactions Code (the Civil Law) and Federal Law Number 28 of 2005 regarding the Personal Status Law (the Personal Law).

Article 1(2) of the Personal Law states that the law will be applicable on all the citizens of UAE unless a non-Muslim foreign national have special provisions according to their community, which empowers the foreigner to have a choice of the law and avoid application of Shariah. Simultaneously, Article 17 of the Civil Law states that the inheritance will be governed by the law of the testator at the time of his death.