Personal Status, Family & Inheritance

This page brings together articles by the team at Awadh Almheiri Law Firm and Legal Consultations in Dubai on personal status: divorce, khulʿ and divorce for harm; maintenance in all its forms; custody, visitation and travelling with the child; establishing parentage; a wife’s rights after divorce; divorce of non-nationals; inheritance and the distribution of the estate; wills and their registration for non-Muslims; and the estate of someone who dies without a will.

The firm handles these matters for nationals and residents before the personal status courts and family guidance committees of all seven emirates, including the enforcement of maintenance and custody judgments.