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Wills for Expatriates in DIFC Dubai UAE
20 Nov 2015

DIFC Wills

Lord Krishna was asked by one of his disciples what was the most astounding thing in the Universe. His answer was that a man wakes up each morning and believes that he will live forever despite knowing that he will not. Death is a morbid subject and that is probably…

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STA Law Firm - Can you choose your judge
08 Jul 2015

Can You Choose Your Own Judge?

For a variety of reasons, it is highly likely that most people’s instincts would incite them to answer “no”! However, if we peruse UAE legal texts we will find that actually, in most cases, the answer will be “yes”!  Litigation is one of the basic rights guaranteed by most world…

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UAE Family Law
10 Dec 2014

Family Matters-An Overview of Divorce and Child Custody in UAE

In the present day and age, we can all agree that there is no such thing as typical family tableaux. Although time, culture and location have always flavored the “traditional” concept, nowadays we can no longer use such factors to predict the identity of the protagonists sat around the dinner…

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IVF Law Business Dubai
04 Dec 2014

IVF- Maybe Baby

“And the question is always "When are you going to have kids?" Rather than "Do you want to have kids?”  The World Health Organization (WHO) defines infertility as the inability to conceive a child. It should not come as a surprise that owing to lifestyle changes, food habits and the…

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UAE Succession Law
25 Sep 2014

UAE Succession Law : FAQs on Wills and More!

WHERE THERE’S A WILL, THERE’S A WAY: FAQs ON SUCCESSION LAW “We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.”           Theodore Roosevelt   The Islamic laws of…

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UAE Succession Law
02 Sep 2014

FAQs on Succession Law

Where There’s A Will, There’s A Way:    “We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.”                      …

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Offenses Against Family
26 May 2014

Offenses Against the Family

The enactment of penal laws requires an initial policy determination as to (1) those social and individual interests which should be protected by the criminal processes and (2) the kinds of conduct that should be proscribed [i]. In determining whether a criminal sanction should be imposed on accused, the courts…

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