Women To Start Receiving Divorce Notice By SMS

The Ministry of Justice will start implementing the new system to notify married women through SMS about a change in their social status in case of their divorce being granted, reported Saudi Gazette.

A new Justice Ministry regulation taking effect Sunday will make it mandatory for a woman to be notified by text message when a court issues her husband’s divorce decree, Saudi lawyer Nisreen al-Ghamdi said.

In the new system, women in Saudi Arabia will be able to have access to documents related to the termination of their marriage contracts through the ministry’s e-portal, the Saudi Press Agency reported.

The new initiative stipulates that the courts will notify the women immediately via text message to their phone numbers registered through the Absher system when a divorce decree is issued by a court. The text message will inform the divorcee of the number of the divorce document and the court that issued it.

The service expressed that the courts over the Kingdom have gotten a roundabout to authorize this order from Sunday to give recipients help with saving their rights. This will likewise advance the computerized change in the service with more administrations being made accessible to the resident. 

The service included that a lady could likewise ask about her conjugal status through the service's entry Najiz (https://najiz.moj.gov.sa). The concerned lady can likewise by and by contact the ladies' segment of the court or at the workplace of the leader of the court to get a duplicate of the report. 

The service has propelled the electronic connection benefit with the National Information Center for online enlistment of relational unions after the endorsement of the marriage contract, where the conjugal status of the couple will be refreshed specifically in the Absher framework and the data of subjects at the Civil Status Agency.