diff --git a/skrules/skope_rules.py b/skrules/skope_rules.py
index 899f166..edb109f 100644
--- a/skrules/skope_rules.py
+++ b/skrules/skope_rules.py
@@ -95,6 +95,11 @@ class SkopeRules(BaseEstimator):
               `ceil(min_samples_split * n_samples)` are the minimum
               number of samples for each split.
 
+    class_weight: dict, list of dict or "balanced", default=None
+        The weights to be used for the DecisionTreeClassifier. Weights associated
+        with classes in the form {class_label: weight}. If None,
+        all classes are supposed to have weight one.
+
     n_jobs : integer, optional (default=1)
         The number of jobs to run in parallel for both `fit` and `predict`.
         If -1, then the number of jobs is set to the number of cores.
@@ -150,6 +155,7 @@ def __init__(self,
                  max_depth_duplication=None,
                  max_features=1.,
                  min_samples_split=2,
+                 class_weight=None,
                  n_jobs=1,
                  random_state=None,
                  verbose=0):
@@ -164,6 +170,7 @@ def __init__(self,
         self.max_depth = max_depth
         self.max_depth_duplication = max_depth_duplication
         self.max_features = max_features
+        self.class_weight = class_weight
         self.min_samples_split = min_samples_split
         self.n_jobs = n_jobs
         self.random_state = random_state
@@ -270,7 +277,8 @@ def fit(self, X, y, sample_weight=None):
                 base_estimator=DecisionTreeClassifier(
                     max_depth=max_depth,
                     max_features=self.max_features,
-                    min_samples_split=self.min_samples_split),
+                    min_samples_split=self.min_samples_split,
+                    class_weight=self.class_weight),
                 n_estimators=self.n_estimators,
                 max_samples=self.max_samples_,
                 max_features=self.max_samples_features,
diff --git a/skrules/tests/test_skope_rules.py b/skrules/tests/test_skope_rules.py
index 238871e..56c5bdc 100644
--- a/skrules/tests/test_skope_rules.py
+++ b/skrules/tests/test_skope_rules.py
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ def test_skope_rules():
                recall_min=0.,
                precision_min=0.).fit(X_train, y_train).predict(X_test)
 
+    # with additional class weights
+    SkopeRules(n_estimators=50, class_weight='balanced').fit(X_train, y_train).predict(X_test)
+
 
 def test_skope_rules_error():
     """Test that it gives proper exception on deficient input."""