Marriage: basic requirements and policies

Conclusion and termination of marriage in any country of the world are not only the purely legal significance, but also a huge reservoir of interrelated traditions and customs.In spite of everything, the family remains a key social institution.

worth noting that marriage - is voluntary, equal relations between show respect for each other man and woman, decorated appropriately with the relevant authorities, generating personal and property relations.

Marriage made in registry offices.It is necessary to draw attention to the fact that the so-called church marriage in the Russian legislation simply does not, therefore, before we go to church to get married, the couple should be sure to visit the Registry Office.
otherwise their marriage would not be recognized as legitimate.

Under current Russian law, marriage is possible if:

1. Both parties express their free consent to register their relationship.The Russian Family Code allows only heterosexual marriages.

2. The couple reached marriageable age, which in Russia currently stands at eighteen.However, it is worth noting that you can marry and the age of sixteen, but this requires a good reason and the consent of the parents.

In addition, there are several conditions under which a marriage can be declared invalid.First, if one spouse (or both) is already in the formalization of marriage.Secondly, it is impossible marriage between close relatives, who believes parents and children, grandparents (grandparents) and grandchildren, as well as full-blooded or half brothers and sisters.Third, an insurmountable obstacle to the formalization of relations is the recognition of a potential spouse incapacitated due to a mental disorder.

Recently, quite common in the conclusion of a marriage with a foreigner in Russia.

There is one very important thing: a foreigner who enters into a marriage on the territory of our country, should not be at the same time and to break its own laws.

With regard to termination of marriage, the two main reasons for it are legally recorded the death of one spouse, and decorated accordingly divorce.The latter, in turn, can be produced or administrative (notification), or by the courts.

administrative procedure acts in cases where one spouse after the due date is recognized as missing, was sentenced to imprisonment or recognized by the court incompetent.In addition, without a trial marriage can be terminated if the spouses have no minor children, and between them there are no property disputes.

In other cases, the marriage is dissolved only by the courts.The simplest option involves those cases where the spouses have no claims to each other, but in the family at the time of the divorce, there are minor children.In this case, the procedure divorce less than three months.The greatest difficulty is the process where there are disputes over the sharing of property.Here, the trial may drag on for years.