Legal & Regulatory Updates
Yes, a foreigner can make a will for property in Dubai, and if you own anything in the UAE you should. A registered will decides who inherits, names a guardian for your children, and lets your family deal with the property in weeks instead of months. Non-Muslim owners have three main places to register one.
Without a will, UAE courts decide who inherits your Dubai property. With a registered DIFC will, you decide. Here’s the full process, either way.
Seven laws do most of the work in a Dubai property deal. They decide who can own, how your money is protected while a building is under construction, who regulates developers and agents, and what your rights are as an owner or landlord. You do not need to read them all, but knowing what each
The UAE Cabinet has issued a fresh round of amendments to the Executive Regulation of the Federal Decree-Law No. 8 of 2017 on Value Added Tax. Cabinet Decision No. 149 of 2026 was issued on 1 September 2026 and takes effect from 1 October 2026, although certain amendments to the input tax apportionment rules apply
I know this question may have surrounded your mind whenever you have tried to get into the property market that why the downtown property market of Dubai is so expensive compared to the property markets of other places. Downtown Dubai property prices stay high because the area combines extreme land scarcity, the world’s most recognisable
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