Marriage law

The marriage law is the branch of the family law of the legal standards that relate to the content, formation and dissolution of the marriage and the relationship of the spouses relate to each other.

The field of law includes clarification of marital rights and obligations, marriage separation, divorce ( divorce law ), various forms of invalidity of marriage ( annulment , nullity ), as well as the regulation of names for marriage and legitimate children (marital name law ), matrimonial property law , and the nationally different ones forms of same-sex marriages and other civil partnerships , in relation to other communities .

Specific regulations:

• Civil marriage :
  • Marriage Law (Germany)
    • German marriage law in World War II
  • Marriage Act (Austria)
  • Marriage Law (Switzerland)

• Marriage law of the Catholic Church

• other religions:
  • Marriage in hinduism
  • Islamic marriage
  • Marriage and Divorce in Japan

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• Dieter Simon (ed.): Marriage law and family property in antiquity and the Middle Ages (= writings of the historical college , colloquia, vol. 22). Munich 1992, IX, 168 pp. ISBN 978-3-486-55885-2 ( digitized version ).
• Entry on marriage law in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• The marriage law , admin.ch; Marriage law Switzerland , advokatur.ch
• De Processibus Matrimonialibus - specialist journal on questions of canonical marriage and procedural law