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marriage

vr.tr.marriage · XCT.STA

Let an agent handle marriage as a legal status with conditions, recognition, rights and dissolution, and describe forms such as monogamy and polygamy neutrally with their legal status.

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Research draft, second pass

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Purpose and description

Let an agent handle marriage as a legal status with conditions, recognition, rights and dissolution, and describe forms such as monogamy and polygamy neutrally with their legal status.

A legally or socially recognised union between people that establishes rights and obligations between them, their children and their families, whose forms and conditions vary by law, religion and culture.

What it is for: Forming families and defining legal and social relationships.

It can be enter it, through a legally valid wedding; register and prove it; have it recognised abroad; dissolve it, by divorce or annulment.

Distinguishing features

A legal status, not only a ceremony

Conditions include age and consent

Forms and recognition differ between jurisdictions

Polygamous marriages are lawful in some states and not others

What it looks like

A status, shown by certificates and registers; celebrated in weddings.

How it is recognised

Marriage certificate

Civil register entry

Recognition documents for foreign marriages

Related models

is created by - ceremony

wedding

is governed by - rules

family law

is ended by - dissolution

divorce

is confused with - related status

civil partnership

In practice

Families and kinds

civil marriage

religious marriage

same-sex marriage where lawful

polygamous forms: polygyny, polyandry

customary marriage

Identifiers

marriage registration number jurisdiction-specific civil record

Standards and regulation

National family law

UDHR Article 16 on free and full consent

Conventions on consent and minimum age for marriage

Private international law on recognition

Failure modes and hazards

Forced and child marriage

Unrecognised marriages leaving people without rights

Sham marriages for immigration fraud

Also called

polygamyMormonism and polygamyPolygamy in GuineapolyandryPolygamy in SyriapolygynyPolygamy in IslamPolygamy in Nigeriapolygamy in Afghanistanpolygamy in Botswanapolygamy in CameroonPolygamy in ChristianityPolygamy in EthiopiaPolygamy in Iraqi KurdistanPolygamy in KuwaitPolygamy in LesothoPolygamy in PakistanPolygamy in North AmericaPolygamy in YemenPolygamy in the Democratic Republic of the Congopolygamy in the GambiaBiandryreligious marriage of two Jewschild marriagechild marriage in IndiaChild marriage in PakistanChild marriage among Muslims in KeralaChild marriage in TurkeyChild marriage in South SudanBaadChild marriage in AfghanistanChild marriage in AngolaChild marriage in BotswanaChild marriage in CameroonChild marriage in Democratic Republic of the CongoChild marriage in MauritaniaChild marriage in NigeriaChild marriage in SudanChild marriage in TogoChild marriage in Zimbabwe

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Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Also registered as vr.tr.marriage

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Validity Is it valid.

Validity decides rights.

Conditions

Age, consent, capacity.

Conditions

Legal conditions.

  1. Were the legal conditions for marriage met? boundary
  2. Under which law? provenance

Form

Civil, religious, customary.

Form

Form of marriage.

  1. Which form of marriage is this, and is it legally recognised here? boundary
  2. Was it registered? provenance
Rights Legal effects.

Marriage creates rights and duties.

Effects

Property, inheritance, children.

Effects

Legal effects.

  1. Which rights and duties arise? definition
  2. Which property regime applies? provenance

Recognition

Abroad.

Recognition

Cross-border recognition.

  1. Is this marriage recognised in another country? boundary
  2. What documents are needed? action
Dissolution Ending it.

Dissolution has its own rules.

Divorce

Process.

Divorce

Divorce rules.

  1. How can the marriage be dissolved here? definition
  2. What happens to property and children? boundary

Annulment

Invalidity.

Annulment

Grounds for annulment.

  1. On what grounds can it be annulled? boundary
  2. Who decides? provenance
Safeguarding Consent and protection.

Consent must be free and full.

Consent

Forced marriage.

Consent

Signs of coercion.

  1. Are there signs that consent was not free? boundary
  2. Was either party a child? boundary

Help

Support.

Support

Where to get help.

  1. Where can someone at risk get help? action
  2. What emergency contact applies? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should forms of marriage be separate entries with legal status by jurisdiction?
  • How should recognition across jurisdictions be modelled?
  • How should agents respond to signs of forced marriage?
Draft as JSON