Short guides on each Gold Standard.

A charter records how a family has agreed to make decisions. It is not a contract, and it does not replace the company's own documents.

Drafting is a fortnight. Getting a charter used is the years afterwards, and it is the part that decides whether the document survives its authors.

After reading this you will understand the four features of Article 6 of current UAE law that determine how much force a family charter carries, and why a clause that depends on a body which does not exist produces no outcome.

After reading this you will understand why the values sections of a charter sit outside enforceability, and which separate instruments carry charitable intent.

After reading this you will be able to say what a family charter is under the law now in force in the UAE, what it may contain, and where its authority stops.