Unemployed son, 41, sues Dubai-based parents for lifelong financial support

Dubai - The Oxford-graduate claims that he is a ‘vulnerable’ grown-up child due to his health issues.

An unemployed Oxford-graduate is suing his Dubai-based parents in an effort to force them into providing him with a lifelong maintenance grant.

According to The Sun, Faiz Siddiqui, a 41-year-old Oxford-trained lawyer, says he is entirely dependent on his wealthy parents and is entitled to claim maintenance from them as a ‘vulnerable’ grown-up child due to his health issue. He also claims that denying him money would be a violation of his human rights.

Siddiqui’s parents Javed, 71, and Rakshanda, 69, have allowed him to live rent-free in a million-pound (Dh5 million) apartment in London’s Hyde Park for 20 years. During this time, they have also been paying all his bills and providing him with 400 pounds (Dh2,000) a week.

They now want to stop due to a family dispute.

Siddiqui's case has now been sent to the Court of Appeal after it was rejected by a family court judge last year.

The family's lawyer, Justin Warshaw QC, told The Sun: "These long-suffering parents have their own view of what is suitable provision for their 'difficult, demanding and pertinacious' son."

Siddiqui is fighting a first-of-its-kind case that may have long-lasting legal consequences for the rights of parents in the UK.