Reforms in Family Law in Morocco

On 13 Jumādā I, 1377 (6 December, 1957), the Arabic edition of the Official Bulletin of Morocco2 published a Zahīr3 of 28 Rabi’ II, 1377 (22 November, 1957), which not only announced that a series of books covering matters of personal status and inheritance would be published (to constitute, when complete, a “Code of Personal Status and Inheritance” ), but that the first two books in this series—which were attached to the Zahīr and which covered the law of marriage and its dissolution, respectively —were to be brought into force throughout the Kingdom from 1 January, 1958.