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What Happens to Your UAE Bank Account After Death — And How to Protect Your Family Before It's an Issue

Most of us don't think about what happens to our bank account when we're gone. Then a friend mentions a widow who couldn't pay her children's school fees for weeks because her late husband's account — the one they'd shared for a decade — was frozen the moment the bank found out he'd died. Suddenly it's not a hypothetical.

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