Legal & Regulatory Updates
Yes, simply living together as an unmarried couple is not, by itself, a standalone federal criminal offence in the UAE. But the entire answer would be more complicated than a simple yes. This has been the case only since 2020. But cohabitation and the separate question of criminal liability for consensual sexual conduct are governed
When the United Arab Emirates issued Federal Law No. 28 of 2005 “Regarding Personal Status,” it did something which only few Gulf states had done before it – it codified, in a single statute running to nearly 350 articles, the entire life-cycle of the family under the law from engagement to marriage, from divorce to
For decades, one of the most common sources of anxiety for the UAE’s enormous expatriate population was a simple, uncomfortable question that what if something happens to me here like a divorce, a custody dispute, or worse, my own death, Whose law actually applies? For non-Muslims, the honest answer used to be “it depends,” because
Knowing that a trustee handles your registration is one thing. Actually walking into a Trustee Office and getting through the appointment without a wasted trip is a different, more practical problem, and it is the one most buyers ask about closer to their transfer date. Trustee Offices are the physical, DLD-licensed locations where the registration
To know about Property Registration Trustee, we have to to first of all understand that almost every property sale in Dubai has a line item for a “trustee fee,” and almost every buyer pays it without fully knowing what the trustee actually did. The role is more specific, and more useful, than the fee line
Oqood shows up on almost every off-plan sale contract in Dubai, usually as a fee line or a portal name buyers are told to ignore until later. It deserves more attention than that, because Oqood is the actual government system that makes your off-plan purchase legally recognized. Where a provisional certificate is the document you
If you bought an off-plan unit in Dubai, the paper you were handed is not a title deed. It is a Provisional Sale Registration Certificate, sometimes written as an Oqoodi certificate, and it is a different legal instrument with different rights attached to it. Most first-time buyers do not learn this distinction until they try
A signed sale agreement in Dubai is a promise and Property sale registration is what turns that promise into an enforceable legal right. Also Read : What Does a Property Registration Trustee Do in Dubai, and Why Can’t You Skip One Until a sale is lodged with the Dubai Land Department, no buyer holds real
Here is an important maternity leave update for 2026 from the UAE. Also Read : UAE’s New Legal Profession Law Made Simple: Federal Decree Law No. 34 of 2022 Explained The Federal National Council has recommended that the government should extend the leave for the maternity sector to a full 98 days of paid leave,
For nearly three years, Dubai’s residential property market did something that made headlines and skeptics uneasy in equal measure: it kept climbing, month after month, largely undisturbed by the kind of global shocks that would have flattened most real estate cycles. That run appears to have ended. The Dubai Property Price Index, built from every