FAQ

Jarajreh is a trusted and reliable law firm in Jordan. We handle all of your legal cases with premium care, and we never disappoint our clients. Our experienced lawyers are responsive, reliable, and competent. Not to mention that Jarajreh is recognized in the community, and everyone knows that we are a prestigious law firm that puts clients first.

Jarajreh has over 15 years of proven experience in the legal field. The lawyers also enjoy no less than three years of experience. Not to mention that each lawyer at Jarajreh works in his/her field of expertise, which guarantees high-quality outcomes and results.

At Jarajreh, we value privacy and confidentiality. This means that we never do anything to jeopardize your legal documents that you have trusted us with. We are discreet and we prioritize our clients and we do what’s best for them. “Solicitor-client privilege” allows you to present to us all relevant facts, information, and documents without doubting that they will become public.

Jarajreh handles nearly all cases. Our practice areas are Labor Law, Customs, Tax, Construction and Real Estate, Corporate, Insurance, Contracts and Agreements, Banking and Finance, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Arbitration, Employment, Personal Injury, Criminal Law, Clinical Negligence, Owners and Tenants, Wills, Cyber Crime, Divorce Law, and Family Law.

Our fees are based on many factors such as the case, the needed service, and in some specific matters, the deadline. Our experienced lawyers always make sure to provide you with the desired outcomes at the most reasonable prices.

As our client, all you are asked is to trust us and the process. You should know that we don’t just do our best to reach our purpose, but we do whatever it takes. We kindly demand that you ask us your questions and to let us help you!

Our professionals at Jarajreh will conveniently take care of your case. We start by analyzing your case and identifying the field, and we then select the qualified lawyer who has previous experience in such legal cases and matters.

It’s not possible to predict the time the case will take since this depends on many factors. Some cases take months while others take years. However, what we can assure you is that we will do whatever it takes to help you.

We routinely keep our clients posted and informed about everything regarding their cases. You can also contact us to ask us questions and if you have any concerns, we are always here to reassure you.

Labor Law typically means all the rules and regulations that aim at governing situations among groups of employees and unions. It generally handles relationships between unions and collective bargaining. Rights and obligations of trade unions and their members are also regulated by Labor Law.

Labor Law includes better pay for employees of the same sector, workplace safety, appropriate work hours, discrimination against a group of employees, and equal payment opportunity.

Jordan’s minimum wage is 268 Jordanian dinars per month for all workers in all sectors. It is considered the lowest amount legally paid for a worker.

The most common Labor Law action is strikes. This means that when a group of employees of the same sector feel that they are being paid less than they deserve for example, they stop going to work until they are fairly paid.

Customs are a way that governments use to regulate the flow of imported and exported goods. It typically means an imposed tax on these goods. Customs are used by the Jordanian government to regulate the movements of goods, raise revenues, and safeguard domestic industries. When goods are imported or exported, custom duty must be paid.

In Jordan, all foreign and Jordanian trading companies should either pay fees, which are equivalent to 5% of the value of imported goods, or obtain an importer’s card from the Ministry of Industry and Trade for customs clearance purposes.

Custom cases include customs violation, forgery claims, and smuggling offenses.

A customs lawyer can prepare seizure reports, complete customs procedures, request proposals, verify smuggling offences, give advice, find solutions, file complaints, assist clients with the entire process, etc.

Usually, a seizure report must be prepared by at least two officers from judiciary, customs, or other official body. This has to happen directly after a smuggling offense or a contravention is discovered.

A seizure report must include:

1. Place, date, and time of the preparation in both words and figures.
2. The names of the individuals who prepared it, their signatures, jobs, and ranks.
3. The names of the responsible parties for the smuggling along with their description, detailed addresses, professions, residences, and their selected areas.
4. Sized goods along with their quantities, types, losable duties, taxes, and values if possible.
5. Unseized goods as concluded.
6. Details of the events (statements if there are any).
7. Legal articles that apply to the smuggling offense if possible.
8. The seizure report must state that the content was read and confirmed by the offenders, along with their signatures.
9. Other useful events.

Taxes are what individuals should pay to the government to be able to receive in return social health, security, and educational services. Taxes are a percentage of the income of citizens.

No, micro or macros buses and trucks are not exempted for investment projects.

Usually, projects can benefit from exemptions and privileges of the Jordanian Investment Promotion Law, if the project is to be established at 25%, 50%, or 75% of the original tax category provided for in Tax Law. This is only doable if the project is within the following sectors: hotels, industry, conference and exhibitions centers, hospitals, tourism and entertainment, railways, agriculture, marine transportation, and mining projects for water, gas and oil products in pipelines. However, the exemption period is for 10 years from the date of actual operation or starting production. In addition to that, if the investment projects are established in industrial zones of the Jordanian industrial zones Corporation, they are as well exempted from the income and social service taxes, at a rate of 100%, and for two years.

Both residents and nonresidents are taxed but only on income that is sourced in Jordan.

In Jordan, the rates of tax on annual taxable income of individuals – income that is subject to tax – are progressive. They can be anywhere between 5% and 30%.

Percentage of most realtors can usually be negotiated based on the agent and the client. However, it can range anywhere between 4% and 6% of the price of the property.

Yes, foreigners can indeed own properties in Jordan. This is if there’s a reciprocal relationship between Jordan and the buyer’s country of residence and if the Cabinet approves. However, foreigners can sell the property only after 5 years from acquisition.

Construction and real estate cases typically include, but are not limited to defective construction claims, jobsite injuries, zoning issues and mortgage fraud, and construction defect and contractor negligence.

Construction and real estate lawyers can assist clients with the following: negotiating on behalf of clients, overseeing the transfer of deeds and titles, handling transactions, assisting with closing, taking contractual actions, real estate commercial, protecting clients’ interests, etc.

Corporate lawyers can offer clients consultancy services, legal advice for companies and directors, and business advisory. They can also assist clients in establishing corporates, registering corporates, finding solutions, drafting contracts and agreements, writing minutes of the meetings, registering patents, etc.

Corporate Law, which is a separate legal entity from people who usually make it, means the laws, rules, regulations, and practices that aim at governing the formation and the operation of corporations. It regulates legal entities that conduct business. Corporate Law covers all rights and obligations of everyone who is involved with forming, operating, owning, and even managing the corporation.

Corporate Law includes acquisitions and disposal, employee ownership trust, and joint ventures.

The people who are involved in a corporation are founders, owners, directors, officers, employees, investors, and creditors.

An insurance lawyer can give advice to clients, follow up lawsuits with an arbitral tribunal, find convenient solutions, file a lawsuit, represent clients before court, fight a lawsuit, and solve problems.

Insurance can cover burglary and theft, auto accidents, customer injury and property damage, and reputational harm. There is also hull insurance, motor insurance, fire insurance, cargo insurance, marine insurance, business insurance, personal insurance, theft insurance, and more.

Insurance companies aim at reducing financial uncertainty and making accidental losses manageable. Policyholders can benefit from insurance if they pay insurance premiums to professional insurers. Policyholders can then manage unexpected expenses.

We can reassure you that only a professional insurance lawyer will handle your case. Not only that, but the selected insurance lawyer will have previous experience in similar insurance cases.

Usually, a professional lawyer is the one who drafts, reviews, and executes contracts. Lawyers can even add amendments to contracts. The concerned lawyer should be experienced and should have good writing skills to avoid mistakes and errors. He/she should understand the needs of the clients before drafting and should make sure that everything is convenient.

A legally binding contract is a legal contract or document that aims at enforcing an agreement between parties.

Contracts and agreements include drafting, reviewing or revising, and executing contracts. This also involves adding amendments to existing contracts, checking performance of contracts, managing renewals, maintaining records, consultancy, and negotiation.

Banking and financial industries are regulated by regional laws that aim at imposing reporting requirements for financial institutions and banks. They even regulate taxes and govern securities and transactions.

Banking and finance includes real estate finance, supply chain finance, emerging markets finance, acquisition finance, financial regulations, and bank lending and borrowing cases.

Yes, lenders are protected by the law. If the borrower fails at repaying the money, the party that lent the money has the right to refer to the law and file a lawsuit. However, if lenders want to avoid going to court, they can try negotiating with the borrower and agreeing on ways to repay the money.

Intellectual property includes patents, copyrights, and trademarks. A typical intellectual property lawyer can advise, find solutions, assist in passing off trademark, and represent clients before court.

Intellectual property law aims at encouraging the creation of intellectual goods. Intellectual property law protects innovators and creators and encourages them to keep on concretizing their ideas.

When individuals create and concretize and idea, they have the right to refer to an intellectual property law lawyer if someone stole it. Once the concept is materialized into a physical form, creators and innovators can refer to intellectual property law, but if it weren’t concretized, then it can’t be considered an intellectual property case.

Litigation law aims at governing topics that concern filing lawsuits, trials, seeking compensation, and other topics that are closely related to litigation. It covers parties who take part in the lawsuit as well, which typically are plaintiffs and defendants.

The right of litigation refers to a natural right close to individuals. It is a natural right that has forgone the presence of the law. Right of litigations doesn’t have to be stipulated in constitutions.  

Jordan has a mixed legal system that is based on civil law: Sharia Law (which is the Islamic Law) and Customary Law.

It usually depends on the type of the case and the type of other pending cases. However, a case can take months or even years before going to court.

It is always better to hire an attorney to represent you before court and to take care of all of your legal matters. The reason is simple: because attorneys are versed in specific areas of law, and they usually have deep knowledge of the law, rules, and procedures. Attorneys can assist you in filing a lawsuit, gathering information and evidence, questioning witnesses, and representing you before court. They offer convenient legal services and they can even give you advice.

In Jordan, there are three main types of courts. They are civil courts, military courts, and religious courts.

Arbitration is a contract-based form that parties refer to if they don’t want to go to court. Arbitration involves a neutral third party that will assist clients in finding solutions when they fail at doing so by themselves. The concerned impartial third party will then make the decision for them.

Arbitration and litigation are not the same. Arbitration is a private process in which parties refer to an impartial third party to regulate disputes when they are unable to make a decision, while litigation is a formal process in which parties take a dispute to court.

A conciliator is only allowed to suggest outcomes and the parties get to choose whether or not to accept the suggestions and recommendations. Whereas arbitration tribunals are allowed to make decisions that bind the concerned parties.

According to the Jordanian Arbitration Law, there can be one or more arbitrators. However, the number has to be odd. If the number of arbitrators isn’t present in the parties’ agreement, then the default number of arbitrators is three.

According to the Jordanian Arbitration Law, there are no specific requirements on who can be appointed as an arbitrator. However, arbitrators can’t be minors, interdicted, or deprived of their civil rights. There are no specific requirements or conditions in terms of nationality or gender of arbitrators as well. If arbitrators accept their mandate, they must submit their written acceptance and disclose any possible circumstances that might affect their independence and neutrality.

Employment law refers to the regulations and laws that typically aim at governing relationships between employers and employees of the same company, agency, or entity. It deals with the legal rights and obligations of the employees and the entity or company that they work in.

While Labor Law aims at regulating relationships between unions and collective bargaining agreements, employment law directly deals with relationships between employers and employees of the same company.

Employment Law covers workplace safety, compensation law, day laborers, discrimination cases, compensation injuries, wage and hours, harassment, leaves, domestic workers, and equal employment opportunity.

Employment lawyers also handle tasks that are closely related to employment such as drafting, reviewing, and executing contracts and agreements. They can even help employees understand the contract and make sure that what they are signing is legitimate and convenient.

Personal injuries refer to accidents where individuals are victims of another individual’s negligence. These situations allow injured individuals to make a claim for compensation since unplanned medical bills will occur along with other expenses.

Personal injury lawyers can give the injured party advice, help negotiate with the other negligent party, file a lawsuit, gather convenient evidence, question witnesses, work with experts to try and reconstruct the scene of the accident, assess the progression or regression of physical and mental health, and assess medical and police records.

If the negligent party refuses to take full responsibility, the injured party can file a lawsuit to claim compensation. Since the injured party is left with extra expenses that he/she wasn’t ready for, the responsible party should pay for those additional expenses.

Criminal Law helps define criminal offences, regulate the apprehension, fix penalties, and also includes trial of suspected individuals. Criminal Law is what makes it possible for individuals to peacefully live in the same society since they are protected from possible crimes, thanks to Criminal Law.

Criminal Law typically includes, but isn’t limited to, sexual offenses, violent offenses, youth charges, property offenses, drug offenses, white-collar crimes, domestic assaults, and more. And a Criminal Law lawyer can take care of negotiations, plea bargain, questioning witnesses, analyzing evidence, and investigating into the case.

Criminal defense lawyers can be divided into two camps: court-appointed attorneys who are usually paid by the government to represent the party, and private attorneys who are directly paid by the party.

Clinical negligence refers to situations where medical staff provides patients with poor care that worsens an existing condition or even causes an additional health condition. These cases call for the concerned medical staff to compensate patients.

If the medical staff or professional doesn’t cooperate, patients have the right to file a lawsuit to claim their rights and compensation. These situations need professional clinical negligence lawyers who can assist their clients in getting the compensation they deserve.

Clinical negligence situations and cases include surgical errors, wrongful birth claims, brain injuries, expired medical products, plastic surgery claims, orthopedic claims, delay in diagnosis, and death of patients.

The rights of owners and tenants are protected by the law and whenever there is an act or an event that doesn’t abide by the contract and agreement, the concerned party can consider taking legal action. By hiring a lawyer, parties can ensure that they understand their rights and obligations.

Owners should maintain the premises in habitable conditions. From providing tenants with heat, to water and electricity, weatherproofing, and safe, clean, and sanitary premises, they have to keep everything as agreed upon. However, if owners fail to do so, tenants can immediately move out, pay less rent, or withhold the entire rent until necessary repairs are made.

Cases of owners and tenants typically include eviction cases, unfulfilled promises, injuries, damaged property, landlord discrimination cases, unwilling to make necessary repairs, unpaid rent, etc.

Wills are legal documents that include the distribution of assets and the care of minor children that individuals accomplish before their death. This spares heirs from spending additional money, time, and effort to settle affairs after the death of a loved one. If individuals die before writing a will, their estate will be left in the hands of state officials or judges. Individuals can write their own valid wills, however, the document should be witnessed to avoid challenges after they’re gone.

Will disputes usually occur when heirs don’t agree on the division of assets, or if one feels that he/she is excluded from the distribution of properties, trusts, and other related assets. In these cases, individuals refer to will lawyers to handle their case, since heirs have the right to demand a change in the distribution, if they feel left out.

Will lawyers can draft wills and offer advice before the death of individuals. They can even review wills and prepare the required documents. Also, they take care of the distribution of asses after the person is dead. They can handle will disputes and intervene by giving advice, finding solutions, negotiating, or filing a lawsuit.

Cyber crimes are the crimes that are usually committed using the internet and the computer or other electronic devices such as smartphones and tablets. These crimes are becoming more and more common nowadays due to the technologies that keep on improving. They are punishable offenses and the cyber criminal can be prosecuted and sued. Usually, cyber crimes have serious repercussions on victims and can sometimes lead to suicide.

In Jordan, cyber crimes are punishable offenses and victims have the right to file lawsuits in some cases. For example, the Jordanian legislator punishes the cyber criminal who commits the crime of unlawful access to the information system or the computer network. The punishment can be imprisonment that can go anywhere between a week and three months, or a fine between one hundred dinars and two hundred dinars. In some cases, the cyber criminal faces both penalties.

Cyber crimes typically include theft of personal information, theft of bank account information, ransomware, identity theft, cyberbullying, cyberterrorism, child pornography, and money laundering.

Divorce law is the law that concerns the legal termination of a marriage. When married couples fail at committing to one another and prefer to split up, they can legally terminate the marriage. The reasons might vary. From loss of interest, to cheating, and serious problems that can’t be solved, married couples might find themselves in a dead end situation and they decide that the marriage has to be terminated. These cases are handled by experienced divorce lawyers who can take care of everything.

Divorce law includes child custody, division of properties, alimony, child support, and visitation rights. A typical divorce lawyer should handle the whole process such as gathering supporting evidence, consultancy and advice, filing a lawsuit, negotiations, and representation before court.

Divorce is allowed in Jordan, and since marriage should be performed according to religious law, divorce should be performed according to religious law as well. In the Muslim tradition, there is a difference between husband-initiated divorce and wife-initiated divorce. On the other hand, divorce in Roman Catholic and Orthodox traditions can be performed under certain conditions and circumstances, since it is technically forbidden.

The most common divorce reasons in Jordan are physical and verbal abuse, bad financial situations, extramarital affairs, incompatibility, and family members meddling in the lives of the married couple.

Family law means the domestic relationships between family members and the legal issues that might arise. Family matters might occur at any moment, and a competent family law lawyer has the right to intervene to help regulate the problems. It typically concerns civil, marital, and domestic relationships and their termination.

Family law includes divorce and annulment, child custody, visitation rights, child support, ancillary relief, maintenance, adoption, domestic violence, childcare and protection, property and financial settlements, wills, and child labor.

A family law lawyer can give advice to the family based on his/her own expertise in family law. The concerned lawyer can negotiate, find solutions, assist with arbitration, assist with litigation, file a lawsuit, represent clients before court, and handle paperwork.

Yes, it is possible to claim for damages on behalf of the deceased family member. The representative should be an appropriate representative of the deceased member.