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Shiite National Campaign to Increase Custody Age
5-7-2017
The head of the National Campaign to Increase the Age of Custody for the Shiite Sect, Zeina Ibrahim, has reportedly begun a new battle to get the custody of her 7-year old child from her ex-husband who, after 5 years of abandonment due to an agreement between the two, and in order to pressure the mother, decided to take back his son. The paradox, Al Akhbar newspaper today wrote, is that the child will live with his paternal grandparents, because the father does not have a separate or child-friendly home, whereas the mother owns an independent house where the child has lived for years. The newspaper went on to say, that for the moment, the child lives with his grandparents after Ibrahim handed him over to his father to avoid placing him in situations of tension, disclosing that she is about to file a lawsuit at the Jaafarite Court to get a joint custody of her son. This poses a real challenge for many mothers out there who lie in wait for fair verdicts in the absence of a civil personal status law, Al Akhbar said. In conclusion, the newspaper stressed that the incident has reawakened the issue of custody under the sectarian system to reiterate the need to adopt a civil law that examines each case separately to ensure the interests of the child. (Al Akhbar, July 5, 2017)
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