20 legislative features in the “new personal status law” that enhance the stability and cohesion of the Emirati family

The federal decree law regarding the new personal status law, issued by the UAE government, provided the necessary flexibility in regulating personal status matters, facilitating procedures and unifying legal concepts and terms, to enhance community cohesion and family stability, through 20 new legislative features that included creating and amending texts, provisions and penalties. Legal.

The federal decree-law regarding the new Personal Status Law aims to keep pace with the developments taking place in the country, as it is distinguished by the introduction of provisions for issues that are regulated for the first time, and has expanded to include some important issues, and addresses emerging issues that directly affect the conditions of society.

According to a reading conducted by “Emirates Today” in the new federal decree law regarding personal status, texts, provisions, and penalties have been introduced to achieve the ultimate goal of protecting the family’s existence and enhancing its role in society. The advantages provided by the new law included making it possible to rule according to Islamic law if it is not found. The judge is stipulated in the law without being restricted by specific doctrines, and the supervising judge is given the power to decide whether or not to refer the case to correctional and family guidance centers, and to regulate the wife’s right to a home. Marital law, setting a maximum of 15 days to document the divorce or review it, and giving the woman the right to compensation equivalent to alimony if the divorce is not documented.

The advantages included shortening the arbitration period in cases of annulment of the marriage contract due to harm to 60 days, preserving the right of the spouses not to force either of them to live with an addicted person who does not trust himself and his family, and enabling spouses who have not reached the age of majority to take charge of matters related to marriage without the need for Resorting to the legal guardian or guardian to facilitate their affairs.

The advantages provided by the new law included granting women the right to marry a suitable match with whom they were satisfied, regulating the provisions related to the recovery of gifts and dowry in the event of abandoning the engagement, raising the age at which custody ends for males and females when the child in custody reaches 18 years of age, and granting the child in custody the right to choose residence with any of the following: His parents by completing the age of 15 years of age, and granting the court to assess the interest of the child in custody in his continued custody of his mother in the event that the mother is of a different religion (previous law It stipulates that the custody of the non-Muslim mother ends when the child in custody completes five years.

The advantages also included that the will be valid even if the testator and the legatee differed in religion, whether the will was between spouses, relatives, or third parties, and allowing the legatee to withdraw his inheritance when it is impossible to implement the will for any reason, and taking the estate under the rule of charitable endowments under the supervision of the concerned authorities if not. There is an heir for the deceased, in addition to the legatee’s right to the corresponding price within the limits of the will in the event that the legatee is not permitted to own it, and the new law also preserves the funds of minors. And their safety, security, and good care by introducing penalties amounting to imprisonment and a fine of not less than 5,000 dirhams and not exceeding 100,000 dirhams. He also introduced penalties for abuse, abuse, neglect of parents, leaving them without care, or refraining from spending on them, in addition to regulating the filing of criminal lawsuits regarding These actions, except based on a complaint from the party concerned.

Law firms and legal consultations praised on their social media accounts the issuance of the federal decree law regarding the new personal status law, describing it as reflecting the state’s keenness to regulate personal status matters, by providing legal procedures characterized by flexibility and ease of procedures, unifying concepts and legal terms to protect family values, supporting and promoting women’s rights, and providing Legal guarantees to protect minor children and parents when they reach old age.

The most important features provided by the new law

Giving the woman the right to compensation equivalent to alimony, if the divorce documentation is delayed for more than 15 days.

Shortening the arbitration period in claims of annulment of the marriage contract due to harm to 60 days.

Raising the age at which custody ends for males and females until the child in custody reaches 18 years of age.

The will is valid even if the testator and the legatee differ regarding religion.

The penalty for harming the property and safety of minors reaches imprisonment and a fine of 5,000 to 100,000 dirhams.

Providing a ruling according to Islamic law if the judge does not find a text in the law without being restricted by certain doctrines.