News 24 | Anything that is offered by the groom or the bride is a gift. Marriage regulation in the new personal status system

The new draft personal status system, which should be approved soon, provided for the necessary controls for everything relating to personal status in 254 articles dealing with the pillars of the marriage contract, its conditions of validity, the rights of spouses, effects of the contract and spousal support and proof of parentage.

The project also focused on the controls of partition between spouses, divorce, divorce, annulment of marriage, the effects of partition and its provisions between spouses, the waiting period, custody, guardianship and guardianship, provisions of the guardian, the guardian appointed by the court, the absent and missing, the will, the pillars and invalidators of the will, inheritance, inheritance and inheritance Owners of hypotheses, blocking and blindfolding.

The draft claims that anything that the groom or bride offers to the other party during the engagement period is considered a gift, unless the suitor declares that what he offered is a dowry or is drawn as a dowry, and if one of the suitors or the bride changes the engagement, then he has no recourse to the gifts he has given her, and the other party has the right to take back the gifts he has given if they were present, unless the gift is something that is consumed by nature.

The system emphasized that it is not up to the guardian, even if the father, to prevent his guardian from marrying with the jurisdiction that she has accepted, and the court initiates the marriage of the problematic woman at her request or from someone who has an interest. , and the court can transfer its guardianship to one of the guardians for a service it deems appropriate or authorize one of the persons authorized to perform the contract.

The draft also states that documenting the marriage contract is prohibited unless the spouses are 18 years old, and the court can authorize the marriage of a person under the age of eighteen. , whether male or female, if she is of age after verifying her interest in this marriage in accordance with the procedures that govern it, and the court may authorize a marriage. The fool or the fool at the guardian’s request to marry him if it is in the best interests of the married person.

The system allows in its articles to the agreement of the marriage contract to postpone all or part of the dowry, and if the contract does not provide for a delay and does not specify a precise time for its delivery, it must be delivered on request , and the woman divorced before marrying is entitled to half of the dowry if she is named, otherwise she has a pleasure which does not exceed half of the parable dowry.

The system said that the alimony for each person came from his money except the wife, so she spent it on her husband even though she was well off, and if there was no money for the unknown parents and that no one was donating expenses, his expense was on the state, emphasizing that alimony is one of the spender’s rights over him, and includes food, clothing, shelter and basic needs As per custom .

The system established rights for the wife over her husband, including in-kind alimony, equity between sworn wives and mandatory alimony if the husband has more than one wife, and not encroaching on her. money, and it also included the establishment of rights for the husband. on his wife, including obedience to him and not to leave his home without his permission or with a lawful excuse and to take care of his children on his part, and breastfeed them, except objection.