President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi spoke, during his speech at the inauguration of new projects in the Chemical Industries Complex in Giza Governorate, regarding Personal Status Law The new, which is prepared by a judicial committee formed by a decision of Counselor Omar Marawan, Minister of Justice.
Last Thursday, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi met with Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, Prime Minister, and Chancellor Omar Marwan Minister of JusticeMajor General Jamal Awad, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Social Insurance Authority, and Counselor Abdel Rahman Muhammad, Chairman of the Committee for Preparing the Draft Personal Status Law, to review the features of the draft of the new Personal Status Law, and directed a number of important measures for the development of the family..
1- Establishing a family care fund and an insurance policy to support it financially in facing expenses and challenges related to personal status issues.
2- The state is committed to providing the Fund’s financing sources and fully supporting it.
3- The drafting of the new law must be simplified and detailed in a way that makes it easier for all groups of people to understand and assimilate its provisions, especially those who are not involved in legal issues.
4- The law aims to formulate an integrated and detailed personal status.
Details of the features of the bill
1- President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi directed last June to prepare an integrated and detailed draft law on personal status
2- The Minister of Justice formed a committee on June 5 to prepare the law, consisting of 10 judges, including two female judges
3- A deadline of 4 months was given to complete the draft project, from June 5 to October 5
4- The committee received regarding 4,733 proposals from those interested in personal status. Each proposal was classified according to chapters of the law, such as marriage, divorce, and alimony. The committee also read more than 20,000 proposals.
5- The Minister of Justice decided to extend this deadline until the committee completes its work
6- The committee held 20 discussion sessions
7- The committee completed a preliminary drafting of 188 articles
8- The committee will finish preparing the draft law within two months
9- Putting forward the draft law for community dialogue, then presenting it to the Council of Ministers and referring it to the House of Representatives
10- By issuing the law, 6 laws related to personal status are repealed
11- The committee is completing the drafting of the law, especially with regard to setting procedures and issues of guardianship over money
12- The new draft law dealt with problems that previous laws did not address, such as the problems of betrothal and customary marriage.
13- The initial draft included that there would be no effect of divorce if the woman did not know, especially if the man deliberately concealed the divorce
14- He touched on the issue of blocking the vision of the husband
15- Granting new powers to the judge to deal with urgent cases in order to support the family
16- Developing a new system that collects the disputes of each family before one court
17- Developing measures to reduce divorce
18- Preserving the financial inheritance of each spouse and the share of each of them in the common wealth that was formed during the marriage
19- Reformulating marriage and divorce documents to ensure that they include what the two parties agreed upon in cases of marriage and divorce
20- Documenting divorce, as is the case in documenting marriage, and not arranging any obligations for the wife except from the date of her knowledge of it.
official statistics
1- More than 5 million divorce cases from 1965 until now
2- More than 166,000 divorce cases in 2021
3- The highest percentage of divorce cases in the first and second years of marriage is for those who have children within months of age
4- The largest percentage of divorce cases occurs between the ages of 18 and 20
