Effective February 1, 2023, UAE Government came up with a new non-Muslim personal law issued vide Federal Decree-Law No. 41/2022. This law specifically deals with civil personal status of non-Muslims in UAE. This group of people constitutes almost one-fourth of the population of UAE out of nearly 10 million people. It comprises both citizens and expatriate residents.

Since the promulgation of the new law, over these few months, we have seen that there has been lot of curiosity amongst the non-Muslim population with regard to certain provisions of the said law especially when we talk about marriage, divorce, inheritance, registration of Wills, child adoption etc. This law helps bring clarity to such issues of the non-Muslims in UAE. Accordingly, we have collated few such questions of mostly common concern and provided answers to them which would help non-Muslim population in UAE to better understand the nuances of the new law in relation to them.