Frequently asked questions

No. UAE Expat Wills is an independent digital legal-service platform owned and operated by Summit Legal Consultancy UAE, Trade Licence No. 4429232.01. It is not a court, government authority, notary or official Will registry.

Summit Legal Consultancy UAE. The platform delivers the digital process — assessment, questionnaire, document exchange and status — while the legal services and human review are provided by the firm.

Summit's legal team, led by Ahmed Mohammedi, Managing Director and Co-Founder, and Dr. Mohamed Raouf, Principal Legal Consultant and Co-Founder.

No. A draft is prepared for your circumstances and every Will receives human legal review before it is treated as ready for your approval. No automated draft is released to a client.

No. The information on the website is general. Advice is given within an accepted engagement, after the legal team has reviewed your instructions.

No. Visiting the site, completing the assessment, creating an account, sending an enquiry or uploading documents does not by itself create a professional engagement. An engagement begins when Summit accepts the matter and the applicable terms are agreed.

Yes. Summit may decline where a matter falls outside our services, creates a conflict, lacks sufficient information, cannot be handled appropriately through the platform, or cannot lawfully or professionally be accepted.

No. Completing the assessment, paying the professional fee, completing the questionnaire or approving a draft does not itself register a Will. Registration or notarisation is completed only through the competent authority.

Summit Legal Consultancy UAE is licensed in the United Arab Emirates under Trade Licence No. 4429232.01. Contact is by email and WhatsApp; no address is published on this site.

The professional fee for one accepted standard Will is AED 10,000 plus VAT.

Will preparation, human legal review by Summit's legal team, certified legal translation of the new UAE Will, the amendment allowance stated in your Service Confirmation, and assistance submitting the application to the competent authority.

No. Government, court, registry, notary, certification, attestation, courier and identity-verification charges are separate unless expressly included in writing. They are set and collected by the relevant authority or provider.

As currently published: ADJD Civil Will AED 950.00 for one regular Will; Dubai Courts approximately AED 2,100.00 for one Will; DIFC varies by Will type. Each remains subject to the authority's current schedule and to the route confirmed after legal review.

DIFC engagements are quoted individually and currently start from AED 3,999 plus VAT. A DIFC matter is never shown as a fixed purchasable price and cannot be paid for online.

Each person's Will is a separate document and a separate authority registration. The total professional fee and any package treatment is shown in the Service Confirmation before payment. Authority fees normally apply separately to each Will.

After the assessment, once you have created an account and read the engagement terms. You see the proposed service, the fee and VAT, what is included, the amendment allowance, known exclusions and the separate charge categories before you commit.

Only with your express approval. If the detailed information reveals work outside the accepted scope, Summit pauses the affected work, explains what has changed and provides the proposed scope and fee. You may accept or decline.

The matter is paused and the full standard fee already paid is credited against the agreed DIFC professional fee. If you decline, the unused balance is refunded after deducting only a reasonable, documented amount for substantive work already completed.

No. No payment is requested while a matter is held for legal review.

Yes. Muslim clients complete the same online process as everyone else: provide instructions, pay the professional fee, and Summit's legal team reviews the case, confirms the correct wording under the applicable rules and selects the appropriate registration authority before you approve anything.

The Will services available through this platform are not intended for UAE citizens. You are welcome to contact Summit Legal Consultancy UAE for other legal services.

Not necessarily. A non-resident who owns UAE assets may still need a UAE Will. Residency affects the route analysis but does not by itself decide it, and each authority applies its own current requirements.

No. You do not choose between the pathways. Both begin with the same assessment, and the appropriate route is identified by the legal review.

A possible route may involve the DIFC Courts Wills Service, Abu Dhabi Judicial Department Civil Wills, Dubai Courts or another legally appropriate process. The comparison on the UAE Will Options page sets out who each may be relevant for.

About five minutes. It is free and no account is needed.

It depends on your answers — conditional questions appear only when they are relevant, so we do not promise a number.

For an accepted standard matter we aim to send the first draft within 2 business days after receiving complete, usable instructions and all required documents. A matter requiring specialist analysis, further clarification or additional documents may take longer.

That is set by the competent authority. We cannot guarantee that any authority will accept a Will or complete registration within a particular period.

Yes. Assessment answers are kept against your device until you create an account, and questionnaire progress is saved to your account after that.

Tell us. Before registration, a material change such as marriage, divorce, separation, birth or adoption, the death or incapacity of a chosen person, or the acquisition or disposal of a significant asset may affect the draft.

It means one or more answers indicate that the legal team should look at your matter before recommending a service, a route or a price. It is not a rejection, and no payment is requested while a matter is held.

You can record guardianship wishes where the selected Will route permits it. A nomination records your wishes; it does not remove the rights of the other parent, and the competent court decides.

We cannot promise that. The competent court decides guardianship, taking the applicable law and the child's interests into account.

You can name alternatives — for beneficiaries, executors and guardians — in case a first choice dies, declines or is unable to act.

The detailed questionnaire asks for the information needed for the accepted scope. No names are required during the free assessment.

Naming them is the only way the intention is recorded, and some routes limit who may benefit. The legal review confirms what is possible on your route.

The competent authority, not the platform and not Summit. We assist with preparation and submission and explain the authority's requirements.

No one can promise that. The authority may set its own eligibility, document, language, identity, attendance and signing requirements, and it decides whether to accept a Will for registration.

That depends on the route and the authority's current rules. Some routes currently permit virtual registration; others require attendance. We tell you what applies before submission.

No. It is set and collected by the authority. After legal review confirms the recommended route, we explain the then-current charge before you authorise or make that payment.

No. Registration is an authority process. It does not guarantee future validity, enforcement or any particular outcome after death.

Not automatically. The chosen framework can affect the court dealing with probate or implementation, document language, enforcement steps and asset-transfer procedures.

One document does not operate automatically in every country. Where a foreign Will exists, the review considers how the two documents sit together.

Certified legal translation of the new UAE Will is included in the standard professional fee. Legalisation, recognition or translation of a separate foreign document is not.

Typically your passport and Emirates ID, plus any document relevant to the accepted scope — an existing Will, a title deed, a shareholders' agreement. We ask for what the route requires and nothing more.

Yes. Upload supports camera capture on mobile.

In accordance with the Privacy Policy. Will instructions may contain sensitive personal information about you and other people, so please do not upload information that is not reasonably required for your matter.

No. Email and messaging carry confidentiality and delivery risks. Once a matter is accepted, documents are exchanged through your secure account.

Never. We do not request passwords, seed phrases, private keys or card details by email, WhatsApp or telephone.

Access is limited to the staff who need it to deliver your matter. Certain sensitive answers are restricted to authorised legal staff and are excluded from ordinary notifications and case lists.

Yes, within the amendment allowance stated in your Service Confirmation. Further amendments may be chargeable, and any charge is explained and approved before it applies.

A registered Will can normally be replaced or revoked, subject to the authority's process. Contact us and we will explain the route for an update.

Tell us. If you approved a document containing an error you could reasonably have identified, or a relevant fact was not disclosed, correction work may be chargeable. This does not affect your rights where the error was ours.

Say so in the assessment. A matter involving revoking or replacing an existing Will is reviewed by the legal team before payment.

We provide a route for future updates when your family, assets or wishes change. A Will should be reviewed after any significant life event.

Yes. Final documents are available in your account, and you can ask us for copies.

Email info@uaeexpatwills.com with your name, matter reference, the issue and the outcome you are requesting. Using our internal process does not prevent you from contacting a competent UAE consumer-protection, data-protection, regulatory or judicial authority.