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The Algerian Family Code is a document that governs the marriage and property rights of Algeria. It contains specifications that were based on Islamic traditions and are, according to the United Nations, “informed directly by the Islamic law “Fiqh”.
Algerian women can inherit property, obtain a divorce, retain custody of their children, gain an education and work in many sectors of society. [10] Women make up 70 percent of Algeria's lawyers and 60 percent of its judges. [10] They also dominate the fields of medicine, healthcare and science. [10]
Community property (United States) also called community of property (South Africa) is a marital property regime whereby property acquired during a marriage is considered to be owned by both spouses and subject to division between them in the event of divorce. Conversely, property owned by one spouse before the marriage, along with gifts and ...
Matrimonial regimes, or marital property systems, are systems of property ownership between spouses providing for the creation or absence of a marital estate and if created, what properties are included in that estate, how and by whom it is managed, and how it will be divided and inherited at the end of the marriage.
Algerian Family Code; Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia. Australian family law; Family Law Act (Canada) California Child Actor's Bill, or the Coogan Law; Family law system in England and Wales. Children Act of 1989; Malian Family Code; Mudawana, the Moroccan Family Code; The Philippines' Family Code of 1987; Nashim, the order of the ...
In February 2005, the Nationality Code was amended by Ordinance No. 05-01, which granted women equality in passing on their nationality to their children or a foreign spouse. [74] [75] That same year the Family Code was amended to allow women the ability to marry foreigners, divorce, or retain marital property. [75]
The most common forms of quasi-legal divorce are the Islamic forms of divorce known as the talaq and its less well-regulated version of triple talaq, and the form of divorce in Judaism known as the get which is regulated by the Beth Din. [2] Unlike the talaq, the process to obtain a get must occur at a specific place and with specified documents.
Islamic law principles were introduced into family law in particular, while remaining absent from most of the legal code; thus, for example, while Muslim women were banned from marrying non-Muslims (by the Algerian Family Code of 1984), wine remained legal. Those measures, however, did not satisfy everyone.