Family Law – Marriage

To acquire married inside the UK you will need to be over the age of 16. If you are under 18, you will need to get permission from your parents. It is possible to also not force someone to marry against their will. You need to not be too closely connected and will have to not already be married.

The very first step whenever you decide to obtain married is dependent upon whether or not that you are obtaining a civil or religious ceremony. If you want to obtain married with a registrar, you will have to supply notice for the registry workplace that you just strategy to get married. Notice is displayed in public for 15 days to ensure that anyone who has any objections to the marriage could make their feelings identified. Notice will final for one particular year at which time it’ll be sought once more should you haven’t already got married. You’ll have to go to give notice together, you cannot go and do it by yourself and you’ll have needed to reside inside the area that you are providing notice to for at the least seven days if you would like to provide notice there. Once you give notice you will need to supply the registrar along with your name, age, nationality, occupational status, current marital status, and the location in which you wish to get married.

You’ll be able to possess a civil ceremony at any venue licensed to hold marriages. Two people today … Read the rest >>>

Bizarre New Chinese Marriage Law – Men Only!

In current weeks, in the Peoples’ Republic of China, the Chinese government has implemented a controversial turnaround in its age-old marriage laws, and get this, it is in favor of men!

The net and newspaper columns are rife in China now with talk of this new law, even cartoons displaying women crying their eyes out, although their husbands appear on having a smug grin on their face happen to be displayed everywhere; and it has to be said, when the Chinese government does finally do a thing, they do it significantly!

For many years now, there has been a social phenomenon that has been causing a fantastic deal of grief within Chinese society. Traditionally, inside Chinese culture, a Chinese woman could marry for financial factors, i.e. she viewed as the man to merely be a very good provider, and/or marrying the man will be a status upgrade. This was completely acceptable in the culture, and nobody would have believed any the less of her!

Everyone familiar with China, and Chinese marriage laws, will realize that for really several decades the marriage laws, rightly or wrongly, have already been in favor of the female in this style, for example, a lady could marry a wealthy man then locate an excuse to divorce him at a later stage, which led to ‘the gold digger’, who would then divorce and get half of almost everything with the men (and more in a lot of circumstances).

What is this new law? Well, here it … Read the rest >>>