The UAE has issued a federal decree-law on the new personal status law, which provides a comprehensive and integrated legal framework to regulate personal status issues, with the aim of supporting social cohesion and family stability, while protecting the family to enhance its role in society and its effective contribution to community development.

Aimed at keeping pace with the developments taken place in the UAE, the decree-law introduces provisions for issues that are being regulated for the first time, while expanding in addressing some important issues that directly touch on the conditions of society.