Judicial System

Judicial System in Saudi Arabia
Twelfth: Expeditious Enforcement:
if the judgment passed relates to maintenance, wetnursing
payment, rent payment, visit a child or handing him
to his guardian or hand a woman to her muhram or separate a
couple then such judgements shall have expeditious nature.
The Enforcement Law provides that judgments concerning
certain rights of women shall be expeditious to prevent
procrastination in enforcing such rights. These rights take
precedence over others so they have expeditious nature.
The Implementing Regulations of the Enforcement Law
set certain rules in that respect. For example, if the judgment
provides for regular payment of money, such as maintenance,
and the person against whom a judgment is being enforced
has a bank account, the enforcement judge shall instruct the
bank to deduct the payable amount and transfer the same to
the account of the beneficiary. If such person has no bank
account, however, s/he has funds with another entity or
person, then the enforcement judge will instruct that entity
or person to seize such funds as adequate to the payable
amount and credit it to the account of the beneficiary; this
guarantees direct payment of maintenance to the beneficiary.
The Saudi legal system comprises provisions that
safeguard women’s rights and observing their particularities.
These provisions require expeditious of enforcing court
rulings in marital and family matters; lay down detailed
arrangements to secure prompt enforcement of rights so
women may not be compelled to follow-up with authorities;
giving banks instructions as to payment of maintenance
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