Ministry of Justice: It has become necessary to conduct a comprehensive assessment to family status provisions

The Ministry of Justice has confirmed that it has become necessary to conduct a comprehensive assessment to family status provisions, after one decade and half of its publication and render its texts adequate with new changes.

The Ministry, in its response to a written letter addressed by the parliamentary popular movement, about family status, said that the Justice Ministry will open a public debate on the topic of amending the provisions that need to be amended, in the context of a participative approach will all the sides interested by family subject.

The same source added that the Ministry of Justice is engaged in evaluating and assessing the family status, in application to royal instructions, and out of its own responsibility to implement the family status provisions, and to provide appropriate climate and necessary conditions for its reform, announcing procedures and means the Ministry will endorse for the sake of affording necessary conditions to reform the family status. The Ministry is working on defining positive aspects included in the status contents and specific provisions susceptible to raise an intellectual, legal and social debate among various movements and trends.