New predicament on right of mother in child custody

One week after Rita Shukeir was sentenced to prison for declining to hand over her child who refused to leave her and go with his father (https://bit.ly/2PYAwW0), Al Akhbar newspaper reported that ISF units on Saturday executed a Jaafari Court decision preventing lawyer Fatmeh Za3rur (Ex-wife of head of General Security, Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim) from the custody of her 2-year old boy. An ISF squad reportedly raided the house of Za3rur in the southern town of Sujud by virtue of a memo by the Attorney General of the South, Judge Rahif Ramadan, based on a court ruling from the bailiff department in Baabda. The ruling required the execution of the Jaafari Court verdict. On the case, Al Akhbar wrote that, despite the conflicting information, it is clear though that this is a new predicament on the dispute over the custody of underage children. The newspaper talked about inconsistence between what Za3rur said about being subjected to violence in an attempt to take from her the custody of her son, and the statement by Ibrahim’s lawyer Abbas Zgheib’s that the case clearly involves the right of the father in seeing his son, adding that the talk about abuse and similar charges is not true. For his part, the managing director of Legal Agenda, lawyer, Nizar Saghieh, explained that the jurisdiction in this case prohibits the bailiff from signing and endorsing all rulings issued by Sharia courts, stressing the need to scrutinize the consistence of decisions with the Lebanese judiciary system, particularly with the Constitution. He lamented the sidelining of the children’s interest in most of these cases. (Al Akhbar, November 12, 2018) 
 

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