As Egypt is currently preparing to regulate personal status laws, with controversial proposals restricting a woman’s right to divorce, Saudi Arabia recently took a revolutionizing step in new law amendments, taking an unexpected yet important direction away from other Muslim majority countries. Saudi women now dominate the university level in Saudi Arabia, with 37 percent of women reaching the tertiary level, compared to 23% of men, and each year, 121,000 Saudi women graduate from secondary schools, far outpacing their male counterparts. In 2013, Saudi Arabia took a decision that was not even taken by other states like Egypt, which was to introduce a law specifically tackling domestic violence. However, in 2019, revolutionary law amendments were introduced to tackle family issues. The new Saudi law amendments state that the heads of the family can be identified as either ‘the father or the mother’, granting guardianship and the right to register births and deaths and prove the custody of the child to the mother without the need to file a claim.