Parliament has undertaken a process to amend the law regarding matrimonial regimes, family donations and succession to provide modalities of succession for female descendants who had been left out in the current law.
The amendments were initiated by the Rwanda Law Reform Commission (RLRC) in conjunction with the Gender Monitoring Office (GMO), after finding gaps in the current law adopted in 1999.
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