Examples of using Code on personal status in English and their translations into Spanish
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The Code on Personal Status was amended in 1993.
Strategic alliances have been sought with a view to the adoption of a code on personal status.
A code on personal status governing family relationships is currently being drafted for adoption.
The surname, that of the father, is attributed to him by right Code on Personal Status, art. 83.
If parents divorce, the Code on Personal Status determines how custody of the child is to be awarded art. 99.
Their actions to raise awareness have made a considerable contribution to the reform of the Code on Personal Status.
Article 99 of the Code on Personal Status entrusts children to their father and mother for as long as the marriage relationship lasts.
The age of civil majority,which was previously 21 years, has been lowered to 20 following the reform of the Moudawana or the Code on Personal Status(art. 165) in 1992.
In 1993, a new reform of the Code on Personal Status was carried out which consolidated the legal protection of women, minors and the family see below.
The three-year project was launched in October 2006. Its objectives include the development and adoption,in 2008, of a code on personal status.
Mr. BENJELLOUN TOUIMI(Morocco)said the Code on Personal Status applied to matters of family law,personal status and inheritance.
As far as domestic law is concerned, the principle that a legitimate child of a Muslim father is of the Muslim faith is followed by the Code on Personal Status.
The Code on Personal Status and the Nationality, Labour and Penal Codes had been amended so as to eliminate all provisions that discriminated against women.
Acting on royal directives,those organizations prepared a memorandum setting out their ideas as to the changes they wished to see made to the Code on Personal Status.
This is laid down in the Code on Personal Status, which defines guardianship(hadana) as consisting of"protecting the child as far as possible from anything that might harm him, raising the child and watching over his interests" art. 97.
In Moroccan tradition, non-Muslims and non-Jews were regarded as foreigners and,with the exception of the elements relating specifically to Muslims, the Code on Personal Status applied to them.
Regarding guardianship, as a result of the recent amendments in the Code on Personal Status(moudawana), article 102 stipulates that custody shall be exercised over boys through the age of 12 and girls through the age of 15.
When neither parent is in a position to be given custody, it is awarded to one of the mother's, or the father's,relatives according to the order of priority established in article 99 of the Code on Personal Status.
This legal provision was recently improved upon by three dahirs of 10 December 1993 dahirs amending the Code on Personal Status, the dahir establishing the Code of Obligations and Contracts and the Code of Civil Procedure.
The parent without custody may, if he so requests, have the child brought to visit him orher at least once a week, unless the court decides otherwise in the interests of the child Code on Personal Status, art. 111.
The legal foundation for this right is contained in article 99 of the Code on Personal Status, which stipulates that the custody(hadana) of the child"counts among the obligations of the father and mother for as long as they are linked by the bonds of matrimony.
Ms. Abdourhaman(Niger) said that the Ministry had obtained financing from the African Development Bank for a project to develop a code on personal status based on gender equity.
For example, article 109 of the Code on Personal Status referring to the hadana of children in school, stipulates that children must spend the night in the home of the person responsible for maintaining them,"unless the judge deems it in the best interests of the child to decide otherwise.
Thus, amendments relating to the care of children, guardianship and the obligation to provide maintenance(nafaqa)have been made to the Code on Personal Status, the Code of Obligations and the Code of Civil Procedure.
Mention should be made of the legal machinery for the protection of the child which was described in the initial report(penal laws, Code on Personal Status, labour law) and of the intensive commitment shown, since 1993 in particular, by child protection associations, with strong governmental support, which has helped enhance the image of the child and ensure its protection with respect to health, nutrition and legal status. .
The Islamic principle involved was apparently clear and not open to a different interpretation, but, provided that no categorical prohibition was involved, some legislative means could perhaps be found to allow it to be waived andso permit the gap between the Code on Personal Status and the Convention to be closed.
The government is strongly determined,from the legal point of view, to promote the status of women on the basis of equality, to improve legal practice in order to expedite implementation of the progress achieved in the context of the Code on Personal Status, and to carry out gradual reform of the Code in accordance with Islamic values.
Family relations are governed by Act No. 2001.052of 19 July 2001 on the Personal Status Code.