Family Code: King Mohammed VI chairs a working session
King Mohammed VI has chaired a working session on the reform of the Family Code at the Royal Palace in Casablanca.
The meeting was held at the end of the mission of the body responsible for revising the text, which submitted a report containing 100 proposed amendments.
The Sovereign has referred the matter to the Supreme Council of Ulemas, concerning “certain proposals relating to religious texts on which the Council has issued a legal opinion”, according to a press release from the Royal Cabinet.
This meeting also took place after the King had “made the necessary arbitrations on questions on which the Council had issued more than one opinion, or those whose revision required recourse to the opinion of the Sharia.
These Royal decisions have given prior...