The University of Basrah organized a symposium on divorce cases in Iraq. The symposium included a lecture during which Dr. Raed Siwan demonstrated the most important legal articles that organized divorce in the Iraqi Personal Status Law. Then he clarified the gaps in these legal texts that contributed to the increase in divorce cases and presented proposals to amend them, reviewing after that also the role of the social researcher in the divorce process and the weakness of his/her role in this area due to the lack of activation of the laws related to social research. In addition to explaining the many other reasons, whether they are social, financial or personal reasons, for the expansion of the phenomenon of divorce
The Personal Status Judge at Al-Ashar Court, Ragheb Muhammad, also reviewed the judiciary's view of this social problem, providing a presentation of its most important causes
