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Settlement Of Non-Muslim Minorities' Disputes In The Islamic State, Mansour Al-Haidari
Settlement Of Non-Muslim Minorities' Disputes In The Islamic State, Mansour Al-Haidari
UAEU Law Journal
This paper is introduced with a brief introduction on how different legal systems in the past dealt with religious minorities' disputes. Moreover, it shows how different US states were proposing bills and acts to eliminate any religious-based laws or applications. The paper presents how different Islamic schools deal with religious minorities' disputes in the Islamic State. It shows Islamic legal system's tolerance toward minorities in different aspects such as giving their religious leaders a role in solving their disputes according to their religion, and allowing them more freedom in their personal law issues such as marriage, divorce, wills and estates, …
Determination Of Descent And Inheritance By The Heir Through Genetics In Islamic Jurisprudence With Reference To The Uae Personal Status Law, Aref Hassouneh
Determination Of Descent And Inheritance By The Heir Through Genetics In Islamic Jurisprudence With Reference To The Uae Personal Status Law, Aref Hassouneh
UAEU Law Journal
A man may marry a woman by a verbal contract and then abandon his wife and child back to his country to remarry and create a new family; forget his first family. A man may marry a second wife secretly from his first wife and children, so that no problems will arise, and the man may have a son of adultery recognized in the disease of death in front of his legal children, and then die. In such cases, the heir may appear unknown, then some of the heirs recognize him and others deny him. What is the ruling in …
Unmasking Undue Influence, Ray D. Madoff
Unmasking Undue Influence, Ray D. Madoff
Ray D. Madoff
The substantial passage of wealth that occurs upon death in the United States each year brings into focus the tension between the belief that people should be able to dispose of their wealth as they wish and society’s interest in maintaining social stability. Nowhere is this tension more apparent than in the doctrine of undue influence. The dominant paradigm presents the undue influence doctrine as providing a double benefit of protecting freedom of testation as well as preventing overreaching by others. In this Article, the author challenges the dominant paradigm by demonstrating how the undue influence doctrine denies freedom of …