Since May 2024 the association travels with fathers on visiting day and accompanies them through the procedures when they are prevented from seeing their children despite an enforceable order.
In May 2024 the association announced the activation of its mediation, family conciliation and assistance unit, in response to the large number of complaints received about the severing of the parent–child bond. From 2 June 2024 in the Casablanca region, then in the other cities of the Kingdom, the association travels with every father deprived of his children and accompanies him through all the necessary steps and legal procedures, amicably or by force of law.
Conditions for intervention
- An order organising visits, served and enforced by a bailiff (interim order, divorce or judicial divorce judgment).
- The father is forced to bring a bailiff to obtain the handover of his children although the order has already been enforced.
- Closed door, manoeuvres to circumvent enforcement, or failure to hand over the children at the time set for the visit.
Why demanding a bailiff at every visit is an obstruction
Demanding a bailiff for the handover of the children on visiting day, when the order has already been served and enforced, is a flagrant offence and exposes its author to prosecution for contempt of a court order and failure to hand over a child to the person entitled to claim him. When a custodial mother repeatedly asks the father to come with a bailiff, this demand may be regarded as a means of psychological and financial pressure intended to wear him down, and exposes her to prosecution under articles 266 and 476 of the Penal Code.
This is precisely what the association asked for in its memorandum for the revision of the Moudawana: a single notification and enforcement of the visiting order.