The relinquishment of inheritance involves an agreement between heirs before a Sharia judge in which one or more of them gives up their share in exchange for compensation. The rules for real estate contracts apply to the relinquishment of inheritance, which must be done with the consent of all parties …
Read More »Cohabitation in Syrian law
Cohabitation: The high financial cost of traditional marriage… boredom from old habits… and the desire to discover the other… and individual freedom… in addition to satisfying repressed desires; All are justifications for the phenomenon of cohabitation, which is a phenomenon shrouded in secrecy in the vast majority of its cases. …
Read More »The right to compensation in an arbitrary divorce
If a man divorces his wife and the judge finds that the husband is abusive in her divorce without reasonable cause and that the wife will thus suffer misery and poverty, the judge may order her divorced according to the condition and degree of his arbitrariness, with compensation not exceeding …
Read More »A new legal step in the face of patriarchal culture
Nearly seventy years after the adoption of the Syrian Penal Code issued by Legislative Decree No. (148) of (1949), and on March 12, 2020, four days after the world celebrated International Women’s Day on March 8, Law No. (2) was issued in The Syrian Arab Republic to repeal Article (548) …
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