The Ministry of Justice in Egypt issued a decision to suspend a legal official from work and refer his assistant to the Public Prosecution office, after he called on young people on his Facebook page to marry before the issuance of the new Personal Status Law, which obliges applicants to marry to pay a certain amount to the Family Support Fund.
The ministry said in a statement that, as part of its follow-up to what is published on social media about news belonging to the ministry, it was found that there are some publications for a page called "the legal representative", and a person named Sheikh Yasser Al-Qurashi writes on it and publishes pictures of him documenting marriage contracts claiming his work. authorized.
The ministry added that this person invited citizens to marry before the new family law was issued so that they would not pay 30,000 pounds (about a thousand dollars) to the fund.
She pointed out that through the examination, it was found that the aforementioned does not work as a legal official, and that he performs the work of the official authorized by documentation without the support of the law and the regulations.
The ministry said that he is carrying out the work of the authorized person on documents related to the authorized person, Muhammad Muhammad Darwish Mustafa, "a legal official in the Al-Fawala district - south of Cairo," with the help of the latter by providing him with marriage documents and documents, and authorizing him to do so in violation of the list of authorized persons.
Stopping # Ma’zoun from work and referring his assistant to the # Public Prosecution https://t.co/JyWWKQSGwb pic.twitter.com/hIayvpO2cP
- The week (@elaosboa2021) December 28, 2022
The Ministry issued a memorandum of the incident, and decided to refer it to the Public Prosecution Office to investigate what he had published on social media of false messages carrying malicious rumors.
With regard to the official, Muhammad Muhammad Darwish Mustafa, he presented what was attributed to him to the Abdeen family court, which ordered his suspension from work and the withdrawal of marriage and divorce books from him.
The marriage and divorce books were withdrawn from him
# Authorized "get married quickly" in the grip of justice,
it is not worth it 😄🤣 to stop lying spreading among people # Personal Status_Law 2022 pic.twitter.com/mG9wEyok8k
- Sahar Ali Omar 🇪🇬 (@SaharAliOmar1) December 28, 2022
New conditions for marriage
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi had called a few days ago for setting a condition for the completion of the marriage, which is that the person wishing to marry pays a sum of money in a fund bearing the name “Support for the Egyptian Family”, in addition to the young man and the girl conducting medical analyzes, and granting a committee headed by a judge the right to approve the completion of the marriage. or not.
Al-Sisi said in statements a few days ago - on the sidelines of the opening of factories in Giza Governorate - that the state has put forward a fund to support the family in its critical times, especially when disputes arise, and that the fund will receive support from the government and married couples, as the government contributes to supporting the fund to the same extent that Those who are about to get married will contribute to it.
He added that the aforementioned fund comes within the framework of the state's endeavor to protect families in times of disputes, saying, "During marital disputes, who will take care of the children? Children are lost in the midst of conflicts."
Many see the establishment of this new fund as a new burden on young people about to get married, while others consider it a way to reduce the divorce rate, which has risen in Egypt in recent times.
According to a report issued by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics in Egypt last August, the divorce rate in Egypt increased in 2021 by 14.7% compared to 2020.
According to the report, the number of divorce cases reached about 255,000 in 2021, compared to about 222,000 in 2020.