Drafting the deed itself
Power of attorney drafting in Dubai
A deed that is sent back is usually sent back over its wording. Power of attorney drafting in Dubai is where that is prevented, and it is where our lawyers and legal consultants spend the time.
- Written to the act
- Checked against current law
- Arabic version arranged
What power of attorney drafting in Dubai settles
Drafting decides how far your agent’s authority reaches, and whether a notary will ratify the deed at all. Our lawyers and legal consultants write it, and a notary public ratifies it.
What drafting fixes
How far the agent’s authority reaches
Who writes the deed
Our lawyers and legal consultants
Who gives it force
A notary public, not a lawyer
Why the wording carries the whole risk
A notary verifies identity, is satisfied about capacity and consent, reads the content of the transaction out to the parties and reveals its effects. What a notary does not do is supply the authority you forgot to ask for. If the deed does not name the act, nobody at the counter can add it for you. That is why the drafting is the part that decides the outcome.
A deed that is sent back is usually sent back over its wording, not over a missing stamp. The words either match the act you want done, or they do not. Rewriting them later means a new Arabic version, a new appointment and a second look from whoever is relying on the deed. It is cheaper to be exact on the first pass.
The two articles that decide how far the authority reaches
Agency sits in Federal Decree-Law 25/2025, at Articles 866 to 903. Two of them govern drafting. Article 870 requires a special agency for any act that is not an act of management and preservation, and that agency has to specify the type of act and the dispositions it entails. Article 871 completes the picture. An agency expressed in general terms, without specifying what is intended, grants only the power to perform acts of management.
Federal Decree-Law 25/2025, Article 870(1)
Any act that is not an act of management and preservation requires a special agency specifying the type of act and the dispositions it entails, particularly in donations, sale, settlement, mortgage, acknowledgment, arbitration, administering and accepting an oath, and pleading before the court.
What a drafter has to settle before writing a line
Every one of these is a decision, and every one of them shows up in the finished wording. We settle them with you in writing, before the deed is drafted.
- The act itself, named: sale, mortgage, settlement, arbitration, acknowledgement or pleading before the court
- The property, vehicle, company or case that the authority attaches to
- Whether the form is general or special, since general wording reaches only acts of management
- A term for the agency, because no general statutory validity period exists in UAE law
- Whether the agent may appoint a sub-agent, and that revoking the principal agency revokes those too
- What the receiving authority actually asks to see, because acceptance is its decision
Two deeds for the same errand
Same principal, same agent, same property. The difference sits in what the wording names, and that difference decides whether the transaction goes through.
A document that works
It names the act and the asset
The wording names the disposition, the property and the agent, so the notary sees consent to a defined act and the registry sees authority it can rely on.
A document that comes back
It was written in general terms
General words look generous and grant little. An agency expressed in general terms confers only acts of management, so the counter refuses the sale it was meant to cover.
From your instructions to finished wording
Four stages. Nothing is drafted until the first is settled, and nothing is translated until the second is.
1
We ask what the agent must be able to do
Not what document you want, but what act you need done. Selling a flat, registering a company change, taking delivery of a vehicle, appearing in a case. The answer decides the form of the agency and how tightly it has to be written. We put it in writing and ask you to confirm it before anything else happens.
2
We fix the form and name every act
If the job is management or preservation, a general form can carry it. Anything else needs a special agency naming the type of act and the dispositions it entails. We list each act separately rather than relying on one phrase meant to cover them all, because a phrase meant to cover everything is the wording that gets read narrowly.
3
We write the operative wording
The parties are identified from the documents we have read, not from memory. The asset or matter is identified by its own reference, a title deed number, a licence, a case number. The term is written in. The agent’s power to delegate is either granted or withheld in words, so nobody has to guess at it later.
4
We read the Arabic back against your instructions
A legal translator registered with the Ministry of Justice produces the Arabic. Then a lawyer who knows what you asked for reads it against the instruction note from the first stage. A translation can be accurate word by word and still narrow an authority, and that is the error we are looking for here.
Drafting in Arabic, and drafting so it translates
The instrument is an Arabic document. Everything about how we write the English is shaped by that.
The Arabic is the instrument
Federal law says the instrument drafted by the notary shall be in Arabic, and allows a foreign language only in circumstances and on conditions set by a resolution of the Minister. So the Arabic is not a courtesy copy. It is the text that carries the authority.
A foreign language document needs a certified translation
In Dubai, instruments must be in Arabic, and a foreign language document is accepted only with an Arabic translation by a certified translator, with both versions signed by the parties. We draft knowing both texts will be signed, so the English has to be translatable, not only correct.
The translator has to be registered
Documents going to the Dubai Courts power of attorney service must be translated into Arabic as legal translation approved by the Ministry of Justice. That is a register, not a description. The federal fee schedule sets AED 50 for each page of the instrument for notarising a translation included in it.
An interpreter is a separate question
If the notary is unfamiliar with the language of the persons concerned, an interpreter listed in the Ministry’s Interpreter Register is engaged to interpret in their presence. That is about the session, not the document. We raise it while drafting rather than at the counter.
Drafting errors we find, and what replaces them
The first list is what we see in deeds brought to us for a second opinion. The second is what goes into ours.
- Article 955 cited for revocation, from a Civil Code that is repealed
- General wording asked to carry a sale, a mortgage or a court appearance
- A fixed validity period stated as though a statute set one
- Articles 866 to 903 of Federal Decree-Law 25/2025, checked before a word is written
- A special agency naming the type of act and the dispositions it entails
- A term you choose, written into the deed itself
Frequently asked questions
The questions we are asked most often on this one.
Who can draft a power of attorney in Dubai?
Whoever writes the words, the deed takes effect as an official instrument when a notary public ratifies it, and notarial duties are reserved by law to public notaries, private notaries and accredited UAE consuls. On our files the drafting is done by our lawyers and legal consultants, who also arrange the Arabic and check the supporting documents.
How do I draft a power of attorney for use in Dubai?
Start from the act, not from a form. Decide exactly what the agent must be able to do, then decide whether that is management and preservation or something beyond it. Anything beyond needs a special agency naming the type of act and the dispositions it entails. Then settle the term, the parties and the Arabic.
Can I use a POA draft I found online?
You can read one to understand the shape of a deed. We would not sign one. A draft written for another transaction names another act, another asset and another agent, and those three things are what the authority actually rests on. Wording that was not written for your act tends to be read against you.
What has to be named in a special power of attorney?
Article 870 requires the special agency to specify the type of act and the dispositions it entails. The article gives examples, particularly donations, sale, settlement, mortgage, acknowledgement, arbitration, administering and accepting an oath, and pleading before the court. Name the act you need in those terms, and attach it to the asset or matter it concerns.
Is the list in Article 870 a complete list?
No. The article introduces its examples with the word particularly, so the list is illustrative rather than closed. An act can fall outside management and preservation without appearing in it. That is why we work from what the transaction requires, rather than checking your instructions against the examples and stopping there.
Do you publish a sample deed people can copy?
No, and that is deliberate. A sample deed invites people to change the names and keep the wording, which is how an authority ends up covering an act nobody intended, or failing to cover the one they did. We show you the wording written for your transaction, and explain why each clause is in it.
What does the notary check when the deed is presented?
The notary verifies the identity of the persons concerned from an ID card, passport or other official document issued by the State, is satisfied about capacity and consent, and reads the content of the transaction out to the parties while revealing its effects. None of that repairs wording that does not name the act.
Should the deed say how long it lasts?
We write a term in. An agency is extinguished when the work entrusted to the agent is completed, when the term specified for the agency expires, or on the death or loss of capacity of either party. Since the law refers to the term specified, a deed specifying none leaves that question open for someone else.
Start here
Tell us the act, and we will draft to it
Send us the transaction, the names and the reference for whatever the authority attaches to, a title deed, a licence or a case number. We will tell you whether the job needs a general or a special agency, which acts have to be named, and what the deed will have to say for a notary to ratify it. You see the wording before anyone books anything.
Tell us what the document has to do
Say who will receive it and what you need it to allow, and you will get a straight answer on the wording, the government fees and what to bring. You can also send it through the contact form.
Call us
Speak to the person who will handle your file and get an answer on the same call.
Send photographs of your passport, your Emirates ID and anything the matter attaches to.
Best for a company matter, or anything that runs to several documents.
Visit the office
Jebel Ali area, Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai. Come in, or have it handled remotely and only turn up to sign.
Opening hours. Monday to Thursday, 9:00 to 18:00. Friday, 9:00 to 12:00. Saturday, 9:00 to 18:00. Sunday, closed.