Event. The Minister of Habous and Islamic Affairs, Ahmed Toufiq announced on Tuesday that the amendments to the Family Code include setting the age of marriage at 18, with an exception which authorizes marriage at 17, but under conditions.
Thus, it will definitely end the marriage of girls aged 15 or 16, it is claimed.
As for polygamy, the amendments offer the possibility for the wife to include in the marriage contract that her husband undertakes not to marry a second wife, explained the minister during a briefing at the Academy of kingdom in Rabat.
If this condition is written in black and white in the contract, the spouse will be prohibited from benefiting from the advantages of polygamy, as in the past.
Please note that in the absence of this reservation in the contract, polygamy will only be acceptable in the case where the wife suffers from infertility, or an illness preventing marital relations or at the discretion of the judge , exceptionally.
As a reminder, King Mohammed VI chaired, Monday at the Royal Palace in Casablanca, a working session devoted to the question of revising the Family Code.
This session comes after the Body responsible for revising the Family Code submitted its report to the Sovereign, following the end of its mission within the allotted time, a report containing more than 100 amendment proposals.
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