Law Amending Paragraph 8 of Article 1 of the Law of 16 May 1935 (Maintenance Debts)

Type

Law

Date of the text

07/06/1937

Official Gazette

published in 1937

Status today

In force as of 27/08/2026

Articles

1

What it provides

This law amends the second paragraph of article 1 of the 16 May 1935 law, allowing maintenance creditors and a wife owed deferred dower to seek the imprisonment of the debtor upon annulment of marriage or a judgment of separation, and also the imprisonment of a person who refuses to hand over a minor child to the custo

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1937. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.