15.1 Civil Marriage

Article 38 of the Civil Status Act No. 376 of 1975 provides that Neither marriage nor divorce shall be considered legal until recorded in the civil registers.

Article 172 of the Civil Code, as amended by Act. No. 23.515, provides that Full and free consent expressed in person by man and woman before an authority empowered to solemnize civil marriage is essential for such a marriage to exist .

Fight against discrimination in civil marriage.

This applies to civil marriage and customary marriage as well as other relationships.

Minimum age for marriage and compilation of a marriage act at the vital statistics office upon contraction of the marriage are regulated.

The Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929 prohibits child marriages.

Dissolution of marriage in the Syrian Personal Status Act

The Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act, 1939 provides the grounds for decree for dissolution of Muslim marriage.

(a) The Law of Marriage Act discriminates against women with regard to the minimum age for marriage

The law also invests religious marriage with civil effects and establishes the conditions for contracting religious marriage.

The Civil Status Act

The Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929 prohibits marriage of minors and prescribes punishments for anyone, including a parent or guardian, for conducting a child marriage.

479. In this connection, the Civil Code states that in the act of marriage, the spouses jointly assume the responsibility for supporting and educating their children (article 287).

Religious marriages were verified by the State in order to ensure that they met the requirements for civil marriage and did not have the effect of civil marriage.

Earlier marriage has its effects in the sphere of civil law.

The Married Persons Equality Act makes eighteen (18) years the age of consent for entry into civil marriage for both sexes, and men and women are equal before the law.

Only officials of the civil registry are authorized to solemnize a marriage.

The marriage certificate is registered in the civil registry of the commune.

Marriage registration and divorce are performed in a State civil registry office.

Ms. Staznik (Croatia), referring to civil and religious marriage, said that civil procedures took precedence over the religious ceremony.

Article 182 of the law on marriage and the family establishes the procedures for registering a marriage with a civil registry office.

As recommended by the Committee that the law on rape should cover rape within marriage, the Combating of Rape Act covers rape within marriage.

Likewise, the act makes provisions for equal guardianship over minor children of their marriage.

In this regard, she noted that the Law of Marriage Act recognized polygamous marriages.

Under the law on marriage and the family, a marriage is recognized in Kazakhstan only if it is performed in a civil registry office.

As a rule, a marriage under Croatian legislation was concluded under the civil procedure.

Both the former and the revised Criminal Code established penalties for any person entering into a religious marriage before a civil marriage, as well as for the religious officiate at such a marriage.

The traditional marriage (the so called lobolo in Southern Mozambique) the religious marriages (Christian, Muslim, and others) the civil marriage and the union of fact.

Registration of the marriage by the officer of the civil registry is required by Articles 214 ff of the Guinean Civil Code.

The Civil Code was clear the age of marriage should be 21, the dowry was illegal and immoral and marriage required the consent of both parties.

It is recorded in an official marriage register and a copy of the marriage contract is subsequently transmitted to the Department of Civil Status for registration.

The Committee welcomes the establishment of a Family court with jurisdiction over civil and religious marriage.

It is stated that a marital relationship under Aboriginal law was already established before they entered into a marriage under the Marriage Act 1961 on 9 March 1982.

Act No. 23.515 changed the age required for marriage to 16 for women and 18 for men.

The assistant shall record the marriage in the designated register and transmit a copy thereof to the Department of Civil Status within 10 days of the date of marriage.

Under Colombian law, the promise of marriage known as betrothal is a private act having no legal effects.

The Committee particularly notes with concern that current provisions concerning the definition of child , youthful offender and minor , as contained respectively in the Approved Schools Act, the Affiliation Act and the Marriage Act the Reformatory Schools Act and the Divorce Act, are incompatible with the provisions and principles of the Convention, especially with the principle of non discrimination and in the areas of marriage, employment and juvenile justice.

According to the Constitution, the forms of marriage, the age of marriage and the capacity to contract it, the rights and duties of the spouses, their separation and the dissolution of the marriage bond are governed by the civil law.

However, article 144 of the Civil Code sets the minimum age of marriage for women at 15 years.

The assistant shall record the marriage in the designated register and subsequently transmit a copy thereof to the Department of Civil Status within 10 days of the date of the marriage.

The age of 21 was the legal age for both civil majority and marriage for both men and women.

The Netherlands thus became the first country to open up the institution of civil marriage to same sex couples.

123. In Bulgarian legislation the term family denotes spouses having contracted a civil marriage and their minor unmarried children.

All marriage and divorce papers must be forwarded to the civil registries at the Department of Personal Status in every governorate in order for the marriage or divorce to be considered legal.