Last Change:
02/09/2025
Personal Status Law No. 15 of 2019
Year: 2019
Type: Domestic law
Rights Category: Documentation
Selected provisions
Marriage is a contract between a man and a woman legally permissible for him to create a family and progeny
a For the validity of the marriage contract the presence of two witnesses shall be a Muslim man or a man and two women (if the spouses are Muslims), sane adults hearing the offer and acceptance and understanding what is meant by them
b The ascendants of the fiancé and the fiancée and the descendants of each of them may be attested on the marriage contract as well as the testimony of the People of the Book on the marriage contract of a Muslim may be certified by a scribe.
The following shall be prohibited temporarily:
a. Marriage of a Muslim to a non-Christian woman
b - Marriage of a Muslim woman to a non - Muslim man
c- Marriage of an apostate or an apostate woman even if the other party is non-Muslim.
Dr. third party wife or custodian
e) The combination, even during the waiting period of a revocable divorce between two women, had it been imposed on either of them as a male he would be prohibited from marrying the other woman.
f - Consolidation of more than four wives or widows in a revocable divorce
g) A man marries a woman who has been divorced from him by irrevocable irrevocable divorce unless after the expiry of her waiting period from another husband by consummate consummation of a valid marriage.
h- Marry the person who has cursed her unless he himself has lied and the judge verifies that