Procedures to Be Followed for Establishing the Death of Missing Persons

Type

Law

Number

434

Date of the text

15/05/1995

Official Gazette

published in 1995

Status today

In force as of 27/08/2026

Articles

6

What it provides

This law sets out the procedure for judicially declaring dead persons who vanished in circumstances presumed fatal with no body found, covering Lebanese and foreign residents. It governs the filing and religious-court process, the minimum four-year disappearance period, estate inventory and division, limits on transfer

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1995. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.