Fifteen recognised communities operate their own courts — Sunni and Shia Sharia courts, Druze courts, and the courts of the various Christian denominations — each applying different rules on divorce, custody and succession. There is no civil marriage in Lebanon: couples marry abroad, most commonly in Cyprus, and the marriage is then registered, which means the applicable law on a later divorce depends on where and how the marriage was contracted.
How the court is constituted
- Tier
- specialised
- Court type
- Confessional personal-status courts
- Jurisdiction
- Marriage, divorce, custody and inheritance for members of each of the recognised religious communities, applying that community's own law.
- Seat
- Nationwide
- Established
- 1936
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