Jungle Telegraph in Dubai
I recently had an enquiry about the validity of a UK Will in Dubai which is a straightforward sort of question, like many people would ask.
She later contacted me to say “she had heard that if her husband died and they didn’t have a local Will she would not be allowed to take her daughter back to the UK”. Something to do with local Sharia law perhaps?
In the circumstances I told her, amongst other things, that if she was in Dubai on her husband’s working visa she and her children would have to leave the UAE anyway assuming none of the parties are UAE citizen’s or Muslim. So with that caveat, what she had heard is not true.
It is however, another example of how information passes around the expat community and that it is not always reliable.
