President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, during his speech at the inauguration of new projects in the Chemical Industries Complex in the Giza Governorate, spoke of Personal status law The new one, which is being prepared by a judicial committee formed on the decision of adviser Omar Marawan, Minister of Justice.
On Thursday, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi met Dr Mostafa Madbouly, Prime Minister, and Chancellor Omar Marwan Minister of JusticeMajor General Jamal Awad, Chairman of the Board of the National Social Insurance Authority, and Advisor Abdel Rahman Muhammad, Chairman of the Committee for the Preparation of the Personal Status Bill, to review the features of the draft of the new Personal Status Law personal status, and directed a number of important measures for the development of the family..
1- Establishment of a family assistance fund and insurance policy to financially support him in dealing with the expenses and challenges associated with personal status issues.
2- The State undertakes to provide the sources of funding for the Fund and to fully support it.
3- The drafting of the new law must be simplified and detailed so as to make it easier for all groups of people to understand and assimilate its provisions, especially those who are not involved in legal matters.
4- The law aims to formulate an integrated and detailed personal statute.
Details of the characteristics of the bill
1- President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi ordered last June to prepare an integrated and detailed draft law on personal status
2- On June 5, the Minister of Justice formed a committee to prepare the law, composed of 10 judges, including two female judges
3- A deadline of 4 months was given to complete the draft of the project, from June 5th to October 5th
4- The committee received about 4,733 proposals from people interested in personal status. Each proposal was classified according to the chapters of the law, such as marriage, divorce and alimony. The committee also read more than 20,000 proposals.
5- The Minister of Justice has decided to extend this term until the commission’s work is completed
6- The committee held 20 discussion sessions
7- The committee completed a first draft of 188 articles
8- The commission will finish preparing the bill within two months
9- Propose the draft law for community dialogue, then presenting it to the Council of Ministers and referring it to the House of Representatives
10- With the enactment of the law, 6 laws relating to personal status are repealed
11- The commission is completing the drafting of the law, especially as regards the establishment of procedures and issues of protection of money
12- The new bill addressed problems that the previous laws did not address, such as the problems of betrothal and customary marriage.
13- The initial draft stipulated that there would be no effect of the divorce if the woman did not know about it, especially if the man deliberately withheld the divorce
14- She touched on the issue of blocking her husband’s vision
15- Granting of new powers to the judge to deal with urgent cases in order to support the family
16- Develop a new system that collects the disputes of each family before a court
17- Development of measures to reduce divorce
18- Preservation of the financial inheritance of each spouse and of the share of each of them in the common property that was formed during the marriage
19- Rephrase marriage and divorce documents to ensure they include what the two parties have agreed upon in the event of a marriage and divorce
20- Document the divorce, as occurs in documenting the marriage, and not place any obligation on the wife until the date on which she became aware of it.
official statistics
1- More than 5 million divorce cases from 1965 to today
2- More than 166,000 divorce cases in 2021
3- The highest percentage of divorce cases in the first and second year of marriage is for those who have children within months of age
4- The highest percentage of divorce cases occurs between the ages of 18 and 20
