Estate planning is the process of arranging assets, businesses, and property to ensure smooth transfer, minimize disputes, and protect family interests. For expatriates, it helps avoid Sharia default rules and secures international estate management. For locals, it ensures clear legacy protection, estate management, and business succession.
With more than 15 years of experience, CorpLex designs wills, wealth structures, trusts, and guardianship strategies that keep your wealth safe across borders. We provide legally valid solutions that respect UAE regulations while protecting your intentions.
Don’t delay critical planning; speak with CorpLex today to safeguard your estate and your family’s future.
Estate planning is not only for the wealthy. Families and businesses in the UAE face strict Sharia inheritance rules, cross-border complications, and risks to asset protection. Here’s how estate planning gives you control over how assets pass to future generations.
Drafting and registering wills through DIFC or ADJD gives legal control over property, guardianship, and inheritance. Services include preparing wills, updates, registration, and probate assistance to prevent family disputes, avoid frozen bank accounts, and ensure quick transfer of UAE and overseas assets.
Make sure assets remain protected and confidential across generations through UAE trusts and foundations. CorpLex establishes DIFC and ADGM foundations or Sharia-compliant trusts that shield wealth, control inheritance, safeguard from creditors, and provide privacy, tax efficiency, and structured cross-border family or corporate succession.
We design strategies for succession planning that protect family enterprises and partnerships from disruption. Through shareholder agreements, leadership transition frameworks, and ownership structuring, we ensure businesses survive beyond the founder, avoid Sharia-based divisions, and preserve value for future owners and generations.
Our wealth planning service consolidates global assets through compliant entities like trusts, foundations, and holding companies. We optimize tax positions, protect against creditors, and design structures that allow cross-border families to preserve, grow, and transfer wealth while respecting personal goals and future beneficiaries.
You’ll share details of properties, investments, businesses, and debts. We prepare a complete inventory forming the foundation of your UAE estate plan.
Our lawyers draft and register wills with DIFC or ADJD. You confirm wishes on guardianship, inheritance, and property distribution.
We set up DIFC or ADGM trusts and foundations. You gain asset protection, privacy, and structured cross-border wealth management.
You choose guardians, executors, or trustees. We formalize appointments, securing family care and business succession without court-imposed decisions.
Our team reviews your estate plan regularly. You approve updates reflecting life events, asset changes, or new UAE laws.
Planning your assets, property, and business after death requires understanding UAE succession laws. Muslims follow Sharia rules with fixed shares for heirs. Non-Muslims now have more flexibility with wills, trusts, and applying home-country inheritance laws, though UAE property still needs local coverage. Without a registered will, estates face asset freezes, court delays, and automatic distribution under default rules.
If you’re an expat, entrepreneur, or family business owner in the UAE, you already know the risks of poorly structured estate plans, asset freezes, Shari’ah defaults, and cross-border tax pitfalls.CoprLex comes with 15+ years of UAE corporate setup expertise with global trust and foundation structuring, delivering end-to-end solutions that protect your legacy and align with your business and family priorities. Here’s what sets us apart:
Already have an estate plan? Remember, it isn’t permanent; it should adapt as your life and assets change. Marriage, divorce, new heirs, or selling a business can all disrupt your original plan. Our experts review, update, and structure your estate to stay legally sound and tax-efficient across borders.
Protect your wealth and secure your legacy today. Speak with our Dubai team to create or refresh a plan that truly reflects your wishes.
Inheritance follows Federal Law No. 41 of 2022 and Abu Dhabi Law No. 14 of 2021. Without a will, assets are split between the spouse and the children equally.
Writing a will, or setting up a foundation or gifting property during lifetime is some of the best practices of any estate plan. They safeguard assets, direct distribution, reduce disputes, and may provide tax advantages. CorpLex helps structure in all possible ways.
It depends where you register a Will. Dubai Courts charge AED 2020 for a Single Will, while ADJD charges AED 950. DIFC registration costs around AED 10,000 for a single will and AED 15,000 for mirror wills. Fees for drafting, translation, and legal fees are seperate.
UAE law combines Sharia and civil systems. Rules differ for Muslims and non-Muslims. With professionals, you can focus on personal wishes, and CorpLex will create a structured and legally sound plan for you.
Without registration, courts may apply Sharia law, delaying distribution and guardianship decisions. A registered will with CorpLex ensures assets follow your wishes and avoids costly disputes.
DIFC will follow common law, bypass Sharia, allow online registration, and ensure faster probate. CorpLex drafts enforceable DIFC wills tailored to your needs.
Yes. DIFC wills are recognized in other emirates like Ras Al Khaimah. Probate orders may also be accepted across the UAE, depending on asset structure.
UAE courts distribute assets under personal status laws, not personal wishes. Child guardianship is also decided by courts unless you have a registered will.
Expats often assume foreign wills apply in the UAE, forget local registration, and overlook frozen accounts. CorpLex helps avoid these mistakes with compliant estate plans.
Key roles include attorney, executor, trustee, successor trustee, beneficiaries, guardian, and healthcare proxy.
