Wednesday, February 8, 2023 – 9:29 PM
ABU DHABI, 8th February, 2020 (WAM) — The Judicial Inspection Department, in cooperation with the Judicial Training Institute at the Ministry of Justice, organized a specialized workshop for judges of personal status and inheritance issues in the federal courts, on the occasion of the issuance of Federal Decree-Law No. 41 of 2022 regarding civil personal status.
The workshop, which was presented by Judge Dr. Mukhtar Ibrahim Adam, the first judicial inspector at the Judicial Inspection Department, discussed several important axes in the new law, the most prominent of which was the scope of application of the decree in the new law, whose provisions will apply to non-Muslim foreigners residing in the country, unless one of them insists on applying his law. And the provisions of civil marriage and the conditions for conducting it.
The workshop dealt with the provisions and procedures of divorce, alimony for the divorced woman, and custody of the children after the divorce took place.. With regard to legacies and wills, it dealt with a statement of how to distribute the inheritance, the procedures for opening the inheritance file and how to distribute it, and the issuance of the inheritance procedures guide for those addressed by the provisions of this Decree-Law.
The workshop shed light on what was stated in the decree regarding the subject of private wills and how to register them in the register prepared for that in accordance with the procedures that will be determined by the executive regulations of this decree by law.
The workshop witnessed important discussions that resulted in a number of recommendations, the most important of which was the recommendation to quickly start the necessary preparatory work to complete the work paths of Federal Decree Law No. 41 of 2022 regarding civil personal status, including the preparation of forms for marriage contracts, disclosure and divorce forms, alimony and custody, and the preparation of records for contracts Marriage, inheritances, wills, lawsuits, issuance of regulations, decisions, inheritance procedures guide, decisions regulating the procedures and provisions of adoption and alternative families and their implications.
Muhammad Nabil Abu Taha / Mansour Amer / Asim Al-Khouli