form of marriage that exist in different countries, do not remain unchanged.Typically, in any modern society it accepted "legitimize" the relations between men and women wishing to start a family, to conduct a joint household and raise children together.Wedding ceremony can be official when the couple get a certificate of registration in the registry office, and the Church, in which the union of two people is inconceivable without a religious ceremony.
history
for each nation its characteristic historical forms of waste associated with certain national traditions and customs.The concept of family in Roman times was associated with something sacred, and marriage already is a kind of legal contract between two people, with women often taking a decision on marriage based on the will of their parents.
At the time, for fastening the union held various religious rituals, which is a prototype of a Christian wedding.On the other hand, in the Roman Empire marriage registration was not confined to rituals, and officials were legal documents, according to which the children are later able to inherit their parents.
After the spread of Christianity in the Byzantine Empire until the XI century, there were two forms of marriage - the wedding in the church and ordinary cohabitation.And the permanent cohabitation of free men and women was equal to a family.Even without a religious ceremony marriage was considered valid if it lasted more than a year, this fact can confirm various witnesses and documents were available, the husband got his wife's dowry from her parents.Only in the XI century wedding in the Byzantine Empire was the only form of official marriage.
Modernity
Nowadays historical forms of family and marriage are in the past, many couples in Europe and post-Soviet states are not officially register their relationship in general or limited to a civil ceremony at the registry office mural.Cohabitation and holding a religious ceremony is now no longer have legal force, so a couple of orders of the joint property and inheritance rights for all that belongs to a spouse, you must register their relationship officially.However, there are new species of unions between a man and a woman, including an outdoor, temporary guest, unequal, and a marriage.
For some families, even after the official "legitimization" of relations prefer to behave towards each other as guests.They live in different apartments, are not engaged in the conduct of joint management and are found only on weekends or once a month.Open marriage includes mutual agreement that each spouse can optionally conduct sexual life on the side, and such behavior will not be considered as treason.
in recent decades have unusual forms of marriage, including same-sex union between the people and the formal registration of the family after the death of a spouse.In some states such varieties formalize relationships recognized as valid, but in most countries same-sex marriages are considered illegal and are not legal.
Posthumous Registration is typical for situations where one member of the couple dies suddenly before the wedding.This is the second side, which receives the status of a widowed man and can count on all payments or benefits owed under the law, except for the right to inherit property of the deceased.All forms of marriage, despite their diversity, provide family voluntarily newlyweds and their mutual consent to the creation of another "cell of society."
