Father loses lawsuit against his children from ex-wife over land ownership

Aya El Deeb, Staff Reporter

The Abu Dhabi Court for Family, Civil and Administrative Cases rejected a lawsuit filed by a parent against his eight sons and daughters from his deceased first wife, demanding the division of a piece of land he owned equally with the deceased mother.

The appellant named Ahmed, affirmed to the court that after the death of his wife, her share was inherited by him and their sons and daughters.

But after her death, the latter persons occupied all the other buildings built on the plot of land and forced him to live with his second wife and their children in one room despite his ownership of more than two-thirds of the land and the buildings on it.

The Court of First Instance delegated an expert committee to find out the possibility of dividing the land between Ahmed and his children from his first wife.

The committee affirmed that the land could not be divided, and then rejected the father's lawsuit.

The father appealed the verdict and demanded that an expert be summoned to discuss the matter with him, or that another expert be tasked.

The Appellate Court tasked an engineering expert who affirmed the impossibility of division, consequently the Abu Dhabi Appellate Court upheld the ruling of the Court of First Instance rejecting the father's case.