The instructor at the College of Law at the University of Basrah, Professor Ali Abdul-Ali Al-Asadi, issued a book titled (The Comprehensive Reference in Personal Status).
The book, which included (507) pages divided into (4) chapters, shed light on the importance of the personal status law and its close relationship with the human being and his family life, and the provisions that the law entails on, and the resulting need for it in all our lives, even before our birth, through our lives and ending with our death. In all of these cases, the provisions of personal status go with us, and the subject of personal status provisions is gaining increasing importance as it is one of the vital and practical renewable issues and the lack of what has been written in Iraqi jurisprudence.
The Personal Status Law is restricted to regulating specific issues, whose definition is presented in general in the preceding paragraph. For Muslims, the Personal Status Courts are specialized in their consideration and the Personal Matters Courts for non-Muslims.
Article (26) of the Iraqi Organization Law No. (60) of 1979 indicated how to form personal status courts.
