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High hopes on Minister Hassan for registering civil marriage
21-6-2019
In its issue of today, An Nahar addressed civil marriage in Lebanon pointing to a civil marriage contract registered in the country by two Lebanese lawyers living abroad. Abdallah Salam and Marie Joe Abi Nassif who live in NYC and teach law at prestigious US universities, have decided, by the virtue of love and the Constitution, to hold their civil marriage on Lebanese territory. An Nahar wrote, that erasing the sect from personal status documents facilitated legalizing the registration of civil contracts at the ministry of interior. The newspaper reminded its readers that back in 2013, and after Nidal Darwish and Kholud Sukarieh held their civil marriage in Lebanon, the Supreme Committee for Consultations at the Justice Ministry decided to consider legal all civil marriages conducted in the country by people who do not have any religious affiliation, and the right to choose the civil law they want to govern their marital and family life. The newspaper went on to say, that the registration of civil marriage contracts between couples who rubbed out the sect from their personal registers, has been suspended during the term of Nuhad Mashnouq as interior minister for political and sectarian considerations. Today, it all depends on the present minister Raya Hassan, given not only her progressive stand in support of optional and civil marriage which she admitted earlier, but also her insistence on the application of the Constitution. (An Nahar, June 21, 2019)
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