09:21 PM
Tuesday 10 May 2022
Books – Mohamed Emara and Mohamed Abdel Nasser:
Counselor Abdullah Al-Baja, President of the Cairo Court of Appeal and former head of the Family Court, said that he will meet tomorrow with the Minister of Justice, Counselor Omar Marwan; To start coordination regarding the implementation of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s mandate to select the committee working on preparing the Personal Status Law.
He added, in exclusive statements to Masrawy, today, Tuesday: “We are looking for a decent life for the family that witnessed a separation, as there is no person who can live without housing, education, and expenses for food and drink.”
President Sisi had invited Counselor Abdullah Al-Baja to discuss the personal status file, and continued: “Please be with us in the presidency and have a list of the names of evacuees who are on the podium or not in service, who have experience in the litigation file in family cases that reflects a vision of the reality they lived in.” …these judiciary have a vision for society.”
Al-Baja returned to say: “My philosophy in the Personal Status Law is to achieve a decent and just life for the Egyptian family that witnessed separation, and there is no difference between a man and a woman in the law, but there is an Egyptian family.”
He stressed that the draft law submitted by the government tried to treat these problems and make them on one level in which we do not resort to the settlement office first, especially with regard to the problem of procedures, explaining that there is no doubt that what is happening in reality has become a persistent hostility that affects the lives of children in the end, and some have become Husbands resort to tricks to block the road at the wife’s expense, including if he is an employee who receives loans to reduce his salary, and if he is a freelance business owner, he closes his office and cancels the commercial registry, and thus the wife cannot prove the monthly income of her husband or ex-husband.
Al-Baja explained that alimony is the biggest problem and represents 80% of cases and disputes in family courts, pointing out that alimony includes fees for nursery, treatment, housing, education and clothing, and therefore constitutes the biggest problem in family disputes in court yards.
