Iraq Personal Status Law Amendment (2025)
تعديل قانون الأحوال الشخصية
Summary
Amendment empowering Iraq's Shia and Sunni religious endowments to handle personal-status matters (marriage, custody) — moving family law away from the 1959 unified civil code.
Impact
Critics described it as effectively legalising child marriage by deferring to religious authorities; supporters framed it as religious autonomy.
Sources
- summary www.reuters.com 2026-06-07 — Reuters
https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/bills/iq-personal-status-2025 How to cite
This is a citation for the legislation itself — credited to Council of Representatives of Iraq and dated to its 2025 introduction. Tayyar is the retrieval surface, not the author. A separate "Retrieved via" line records that you accessed it through this dataset.
In-text: (Council of Representatives of Iraq, 2025) (Council of Representatives of Iraq, 2025)
APA 7Institutional author
Council of Representatives of Iraq. (2025). Personal Status Law Amendment (2025) [Legislation]. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/bills/iq-personal-status-2025. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/bills/iq-personal-status-2025.
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Council of Representatives of Iraq. 2025. “Personal Status Law Amendment (2025).” Legislation. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/bills/iq-personal-status-2025. Accessed June 21, 2026.
BibTeXLaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-bill-iq-personal-status-2025,
title = {{Personal Status Law Amendment (2025)}},
author = {{Council of Representatives of Iraq}},
year = {2025},
date = {2025-01-21},
type = {Legislation},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/bills/iq-personal-status-2025},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {Retrieved via Tayyar on June 21, 2026}
}