2002 Iranian Divorce Grounds Reform Bill
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Iran Legislators Vote to Give Women Equality in Divorce
By NAZILA FATHITEHRAN
Aug. 26 [2002]
Iran's reformist Parliament has approved a bill that would grant women
a right to seek a divorce equal to that of men for the first time since
the Islamic revolution in 1979. The bill would have to be approved by the
hard-line Guardian Council to become law, and that is unlikely. Under
the civil code adopted after the 1979 revolution, "a man can divorce
his wife whenever he wishes." The bill ... gives men and women equal
right to divorce, but sets the ground on which a divorce could be sought
-- addiction, mental illness or violent behavior -- to make it more
difficult in either case. Another provision of the bill would require a
man to pay for health care if his wife became ill.
[I don't know what newspaper or wire service this is from. It was sent to
an American Bar Association listserv]
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