Who prepares your UAE will or power of attorney

What we work on

Our primary work is a UAE document for use in the UAE: property, vehicle, business, litigation and general powers of attorney, together with the UAE will-registration routes we can accurately describe.

We also prepare UAE-origin powers of attorney intended for use abroad. Those cases remain UAE-centred: the document starts here, then follows the attestation and destination-country process published by the authorities on that route. We do not publish generic foreign-law forms or promise that a foreign authority will accept a document merely because an earlier stamp was completed.

Who we can act for

Both residents and non-residents, of any nationality. If you live in the UAE, you will usually hold an Emirates ID. If you live anywhere else, a valid passport is the identity document the registries work from, and a great deal of the process can be completed without you being in the country at all.

How much can be done remotely is not one answer, because it is not one authority. DIFC Courts publishes that a will can be registered virtually from any part of the world. The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department publishes an online notary appointment. Dubai Courts publishes a ratification service with its own attendance settings. Each publishes something different, and the differences are set out, with the wording each one uses, in our guide to making a UAE will or power of attorney as a non-resident.

We work in English and Arabic, and this site is published in Arabic, Chinese, French and Russian as well as English. A page in another language is only listed for search once a native reviewer has passed it; until then it is marked as English and kept out of the index rather than shipped as machine translation with a flag on it.

How we decide what goes on a page

This is the part worth reading, because it is the difference you can actually check. Every requirement, fee and procedure on this site is quoted from the authority that published it, named on the page, and dated. We keep a source registry of dated authority readings behind the public pages — Dubai Courts, the Dubai Land Department, the RTA, DIFC Courts, the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department, RAK Courts, the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the foreign ministries and missions on each corridor — and the guides carry the date we last re-read them.

The rule that follows from it is the one most pages in this market break: where an authority publishes nothing, we say so instead of filling the gap. You will find sentences on this site admitting that a fee is not published, that a page would not load for us, or that two official sources do not read alike. Those are not omissions we failed to tidy up. They are the honest state of the record, and a page that smooths them over is telling you something nobody has actually said.

The same rule decides when a page exists at all. A country guide is published only when both sides of that journey publish their step; several large markets have no page here for exactly that reason, and they will get one when their authorities publish, not before. What is and is not evidenced is set out across our guides to the published requirements.

Who does what

• You provide the facts, identify the transaction and approve the full draft.
• The Deedbox prepares the document and manages the case record.
• A notary or registry executes, notarises or registers it where required.
• The receiving authority decides whether the document meets its requirements.
• A lawyer advises on legal effect or disputes where legal advice is needed.

The Deedbox is not a law firm, not a notary and not a government authority. Using the service does not create a lawyer-client relationship.

What we will not do

A service that is vague about its limits is asking you to find them out at the counter. Ours are these, and they do not move:

• We do not give legal advice. Whether an instrument achieves what you want, how an estate will be treated, or what happens in a dispute are questions for a lawyer, and we will say so rather than answer them.
• We do not notarise, legalise, apostille or attest anything. Those acts belong to a notary, a court, a ministry or a mission, and every page that mentions one names the body that performs it.
• We do not register your will. DIFC Courts, the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department and Dubai Courts each run their own registry and charge their own fee.
• We do not promise that a receiving authority will accept a document. Acceptance is that authority's decision, made on the day, against its own published conditions — and it is separate from whether the document was properly executed.
• We do not quote a foreign authority's fee, requirement or timetable unless that authority published it and we read it ourselves.
• We do not merge a government fee with our own into a single number. Authority fees are published beside ours, never added to them, and collected side by side in our guide to what each UAE authority charges.

Where we work

The document is for the UAE, and the emirate that matters is the one where your asset sits and the authority that will act on it. We cover the Dubai routes — Dubai Courts ratification, the Dubai Land Department for property, the RTA for vehicles, the Rental Disputes Center for tenancy cases — and Abu Dhabi through the Judicial Department, including its civil wills registry. Ras Al Khaimah has its own courts and its own published notary fees, and has a guide of its own; Sharjah, Ajman, Umm Al Quwain and Fujairah sit under the federal judiciary and share a page that says plainly where their authorities could not be read.

Customers reach us from wherever they happen to live. Where a country's own authorities publish their half of the journey, that corridor has a page of its own — signing in the United Kingdom, the United States, India, Pakistan, China, Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, Jordan, Germany or Italy for use here, and the reverse direction for a UAE document used in India, Pakistan, the Philippines, Egypt, Germany or China.

How we handle trust

Authority requirements are attributed to the authority that published them. When a source does not answer a question, the page says so. We do not turn silence into a universal rule and do not use a blanket review badge. Any future attribution must identify the reviewer, date and exact version for that specific item.

Customer approval is also specific. A rejected draft is retained as history rather than silently overwritten, and a customer approves the version they have actually read. Approval does not itself notarise, register or guarantee acceptance of the document.

Business details

Trading name

The Deedbox

Address

Al Rasis Business Centre, Office No. 20, Al Barsha 1, Dubai, UAE

Phone

+971 58 107 2715

Email

info@thedeedbox.com

Please contact us before visiting. Notarisation and registration happen through the relevant authority or licensed party, not at this office.