Marriage law

antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany

area of the law that deals with family matters and domestic relations

official declaration of two married persons by law

law under which a man who commits rape is exonerated if he marries his female victim

statute

practice of a husband selling his wife

Uxoricide is the killing of one's own wife. It can also be used in the context of the killing of one's own girlfriend. It can refer to the act itself or the person who carries it out. Conversely, the killing of a husband or boyfriend is called mariticide. It comes from the Latin meaning and -cide, from meaning .

legal concept of who is a father of a child

area of law concerned with marriage

marital property regime

ban on the employment of married women

overview of the legal status of same-sex marriage

1957 United Nations treaty

Medieval Latin legal expression which may be translated as "in the Danish manner"

Coverture was a legal doctrine in English common law under which a married woman's legal existence was considered to be merged with that of her husband. Upon marriage, she had no independent legal existence of her own, in keeping with society's expectation that her husband was to provide for and protect her. Under coverture a woman became a , whose legal rights and obligations were mostly subsumed by those of her husband. An unmarried woman, or , retained the right to own property and make contracts in her own name.

972 dower document for Byzantine princess Theophanu

legal process letting couples wanting to divorce to work with lawyers, coaches and finance professionals to achieve a settlement without litigation

South Korean law nullified in 2005

federal Law governing Hindu marriages in Pakisthan