Family Law Services | Sharia Law
Our effective legal solutions are compliant with both UK legislation and Shar’ia Law. We understand how important your faith is to you and ensure all our processes adhere to Shar’ia Law.
Our aim is to offer you and your family a stress-free experience, with our understanding your culture and ability to speak with you in your own language.
At Aramas Law we have the expertise to arrange an Islamic Divorce in tandem with UK Divorce Law and achieve payment of a wife’s ‘mahr’ (Mandatory Islamic Financial Settlement) along with the recovery of assets. This can be arranged even if the marriage has not been recognised in the English and Welsh courts.
Under Islam, marriage is held in high esteem and is termed a Sunnah. A Nikkah is an Islamic marriage package under Sharia Law (Islamic Law) between a couple.
Nikkah marriages are not recognised in the UK and couples are termed “cohabitees” rather than man and wife. To ensure that a marriage is recognised in the UK, it is imperative to have a civil ceremony. This gives the married couple matrimonial rights and allows them to make applications to the family courts to obtain financial redress in the event of a divorce. Whether a Nikkah ceremoony takes place at home, or at any other venue, e.g. unregistered mosque, it won’t be recognised as a legal marriage in the UK.
A Nikkah is a binding contract between the bride and groom in countries that operate Sharia Law, for example Muslim countries such as Saudi Arabia, Morroco, Iran and Pakistan. If a Nikkah takes place in a country that recognises Sharia law (and therefore recognises the Nikkah marriage) the marriage will be seen as legal in the UK. For example if a Nikkah took place in Pakistan that Nikkah would be recognised as a marriage within the UK, as the country in which the Nikkah took place recognised the Nikkah as a valid marriage.
In order to obtain more information on where your marriage stands and to protect your rights and what the UK Law can remedy you, please contact us today on 0161 817 5014 for a an initial consultation.
We can assist with negotiation in respect of the Sharia divorce process for men and liaise with Sharia Councils nationwide, as appropriate.
We can assist females to initiate the Sharia divorce process through Sharia Councils nationwide, as appropriate.
We can offer women advice on the waiting period before the Islamic divorce can be concluded.
There can be instances when it is sensible to annul the marriage under the Islamic and civil law, for example in the case of a forced marriage. Our team can guide and assist our clients throughout this process.
If you not sure which Sharia Council should be instructed to deal with your case, our team can offer you advice and recommendations.
If you need assistance in deciding the Mahr that should be given by the groom upon marriage, we can help. (This would mean due consideration of the groom’s financial situation.) The team also offers guidance and negotiation at the time of payment of the Mahr and if it should be referred to as security payable in the event of divorce.
If you are looking for counselling and mediation to help you with any difficulties in your marriage, we work with a specialist, highly confidential Muslim counsellor. We can also refer to religious scholars who can help you through mediation.
At Aramas Law we deal with cultural and religious difficulties sensitively for clients who are having to deal with both civil divorces and Islamic divorces, and we speak 5 different languages such as Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi and Gujerati.