Divorced Saudi women to get ID cards: Reports

Riyadh - The changes will allow women to register a child for school, access records and authorise medical procedures once their marriages have ended.

Female divorcees and widows in Saudi Arabia are set to get their own ID cards allowing them to act independently from men, local media reported on Thursday.
The changes will allow women to register a child for school, access records and authorise medical procedures once their marriages have ended, the reports said.
Without their own identity documents, divorced women in Saudi currently need permission from their husbands or a court order to perform those tasks, the Arab News said.
No date has been set for the change, it said.
Newspapers reported that 28 per cent of Saudi marriages end in divorce and 65 per cent of court cases in the Kingdom involve family matters.
 
 
 
 
 

• Saudi Arabia