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Egypt’s personal status law is strict and does not take into account any individual variations between case and others or where the best benefits of Divorce Children are, leading to many negative effects on the development of the divorced child Therefore, we recommended a rapid change in this law under the main pillar of the new legislation, which is the supreme interest of the divorce of the Egyptian child and under the basic principle of shared custody between mother and father, allowing parents to host and live with their children, which allowing the non-custodial parent to host and living with child on weekends and one week on the half-year holidays and for a month after the end of the school year with sharing of public holidays provided that the safety and security of the child is guaranteed and stabilization of the child’s activities on educational, social, sports or hobbies levels and not to be exposed to any kind of abuse or exploitation, this manner to avoid any forms of parental deprivation, also the custody of the child must be limited to the mother first and then the father unless there are legal impediments or caveats for one of them. Also, the age of custody must not be less than seven years and not exceeded the beginning of the adolescent age, which is 12 years, also abolish the child’s choice system to choose between a parent to live with one of them, also we must reevaluated the custody parent every five years by a specialized committee of a psychiatrist, psychologist and social specialist provided that there is at least one woman in that official committee to assist the court in making the right decision to ensure safety and meet the needing of child in the financial, educational, social and psychological levels, to ensure strong generations that maintain the cohesion of Egyptian society and Highness, progress and prosperity of Egypt.