Rejection of a mother's lawsuit accusing her daughter of buying land she owns "without her knowledge"

The Abu Dhabi Court for Family and Civil and Administrative Claims rejected a lawsuit filed by a mother against her daughter, in which she demanded the annulment of a written sale contract between her and her daughter (the defendant), explaining in her lawsuit that her daughter asked her to sign papers with the municipality, without knowing the truth of what she signed. After that, it became clear to her that she had signed a document stating the sale of her share in a residential land to her daughter for an amount of 200 thousand dirhams.



In her lawsuit, she affirmed that she did not receive this amount from the defendant (the daughter), and did not agree to the sale, which prompted her to file her similar lawsuit.



In front of the case management office through visual communication technology and systems for attending the preparation sessions remotely, the plaintiff’s attorney attended and presented an explanatory memorandum to which he attached copies of medical reports. .



In the rationale for its ruling, the court said that “it was decided in Article 1 of the Evidence Law that (the plaintiff must prove his right and the plaintiff may deny it, and the facts to be proven must be related to the case, productive in it, and admissible, and the judge may not rule with his personal knowledge), and the decision was Judgment that the burden of proving the claimed right falls on the person upholding it.



The court indicated that the decision is that the court is not obligated to conduct an investigation that was not requested by the litigants, so since this was the case and it was proven from the attached sales contract documented before an official authority that the complainant admitted, with all her mental faculties, that she had sold her specified share in the residential land to the defendant and received an amount of 200 thousand dirhams, and she was The papers were devoid of any evidence of the validity of what the complainant claims, and she did not request an investigation to prove her claim. The court decided to dismiss the case as it is and oblige the complainant to pay the expenses and fees.

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