The unified Family Law of 2017 codified personal status for both Sunni and Shia communities for the first time, having previously been left to uncodified jurisprudence — a significant change, because before it the applicable rules depended heavily on the individual judge's school.
How the court is constituted
- Tier
- specialised
- Court type
- Islamic personal-status courts
- Jurisdiction
- Marriage, divorce, custody and inheritance for Muslims, in separate Sunni and Jafari branches, with civil courts handling non-Muslim personal status.
- Seat
- Manama
- Established
- 1971
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