Riyadh: Saudi Arabia has officially started issuing online marriage contracts through its portal.
The Ministry of Justice announced the launch of electronic contracts which aims to to facilitate, simplify and speed up marriage procedures.
The new service allows the completion of all the procedures of issuing e-marriage contract with ease through the portal.
The procedures consist in registering the spouses’ data, choosing the marriage official and the date and place, and documenting the contract electronically through the system.
The e-marriage contract certificate will be issued after submission of fingerprint of all parties involved in the contract, filling up of the data of husband and wife with attachment of files related to the marriage contract, conditions of husband and wife, statements of witnesses and the wife’s guardian plus details of dowry.
More than 13,000 marriage contracts were registered last month in Saudi Arabia, up by six per cent compared with the same month last year.
Saudi couples represented 33 per cent of the total marriage contracts issued across the Arabia last year, according to Saudi Gazette.
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