Unfortunately the civil marriage I posted about earlier did not get approved after the Interior Ministry referred it to the Justice Ministry, simply due to the fact that civil marriage is not yet allowed in Lebanon, and therefore the workaround that Nidal and Khouloud came up with did not work.
Interior Minister Marwan Charbel said the Justice Ministry did not approve a Lebanese couple’s request for a civil marriage in the country.
“The Interior Ministry referred the marriage request to the Justice Ministry’s advisory panel, which studied the request and did not approve on it due to the absence of a law that regulates civil marriage,” Charbel told An-Nahar newspaper in remarks published Monday.
“Any similar request will not be [approved],” the minister also said, calling for a new law that regulates civil marriage.
“There must be a [law] to regulate the personal status, marriage and divorce as well inheritance and other similar issues,” Charbel added.
You can read about the issue in this article by Now Lebanon.