King Mohammed instructs government to study creation of family solidarity fund
Morocco, Culture, 1/30/2003

Morocco's King Mohammed VI on Wednesday said he instructed the government to study the creation of a Family Solidarity Fund.

"Instead of creating a family allowance fund that might be misunderstood as an encouragement to what is for God the most detestable legal acts (divorce), and to family separation, We give Our instructions to Our Government to carefully study the creation of a family solidarity fund," said King Mohammed VI in a speech he gave at the opening of the judiciary year.

The fund, the king said, will be financed by returns of stamps, of a symbolic value, affixed on (administrative) documents related to the personal and family statute.

The Fund's disbursements will be allocated according to rigorous criteria in order to guarantee the rights of poorest mothers and protect children who risk to be abandoned following the divorce of their parents, he added.

King Mohammed also said he instructed the Justice Minister, part of the king's modernist approach, to secure the opening of family-justice sections in the major tribunals and endeavor that such structures be, eventually, generalized to all the regions of the Kingdom and speed the training of specialized judges specialized in family cases.

"The existing jurisdictions that take care of personal statute cases are not qualified to ensure the enforcement of Family Code, a project We are very keen on, in order to consolidate family coherence in a spirit of balance and equity," said the sovereign.

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