Most inheritance transfers involve more than one heir, and the file knows it: every heir enters, in the shares the court determined, and the title issues to all of them together. Nothing about multiple heirs changes the DLD process. What it changes is logistics — and logistics is where these files fail.
The court’s succession document fixes who inherits and in what proportion; DLD registers exactly that. The heirs emerge as co-owners in their determined shares, each named on the title. What the family later does with those shares — one heir buying out the others, a sale and a split of proceeds, a gift between relatives — are all subsequent transactions, each with its own process, and each possible only once this transfer is complete.
An heir who cannot attend in Dubai acts through a properly attested power of attorney. For heirs abroad this means the full legalisation chain — notarisation, foreign ministry, UAE embassy, MOFA, legal translation — and it is the slowest single item in most multi-heir files. The chain, country by country, is set out here. Start it the day the court stage starts; it runs happily in parallel.
For heirs outside the UAE entirely — documents, legalisation and signing from abroad — see foreign heirs.
Where an heir is a minor, guardianship and any court permissions required to deal with the minor’s share sit with the courts before the file completes — legal-advice territory, and the frame is explained here. The registration step itself treats the minor as any other heir: the share registers in the minor’s name.
The classic failure is structural: five heirs in four countries, each holding one paper the others need, none holding the file. The method that works is one coordinator — a family member or an appointed professional — holding every POA, every identity document and every letter before anyone books a DLD appointment. One file, one submission, one visit.
The transfer executes the court’s determination; it does not require a family agreement about what happens next. Disagreements about selling or keeping come after title issues — and cannot be resolved before it does.
No. The court’s document lists the heirs; DLD registers the heirs. Changing who holds what is a separate, later transaction.
No — a properly attested power of attorney substitutes for attendance, held by whoever coordinates the file.
Last updated: 21 July 2026 · Editorial Method