The new couples can inherit land via the women's relatives, the husband's or both.

The new law came into effect on 1 April 2001, since which time same sex couples have been able to marry.

The woman must adopt, when married, the residence of the husband.

The possibility of adoption by married couples also still exists.

When a Beninese woman married, she used both her maiden name and her husband's name.

the spouse's inability to carry out her responsibility as wife 2).

The Decree strictly prohibits polygamy, the customs of exacting wedding presents, wife robbery and string binding (i.e. widows and widowers are forced to get married with other members of their deceased spouse's family).

During the common law marriage, women keep their marital status to that of single and for this reason they are not forced to the name of her male counterpart nor does she have to live in his home.

Women get the pensions of their deceased husbands unless they re marry.

With regard to the administration of property, a married couple has equal rights to conclude contracts.

With regard to divorce in Muslim marriages, he pointed out that women also had the right to request a divorce if their husband refused, they could take the matter to a Muslim court.

However, wrongful breach of betrothal may give rise to reparations. The marriage of a child has no legal effect, because the civil registry officer who solemnizes the married must always verify the age of the intended spouses (18 years for the boy and 17 years for the girl), which is a fundamental condition for marriage.

The right of custody of the children after the dissolution of marriage depends upon the religion and the sect to which the spouses belong.

So I think it tells us that we've designed this ritual to connect us to this new couple, connect us emotionally.

In the context of Commercial Law, a married woman suffers from discrimination due to the fact that she can exercise commercial activity only when allowed by her husband.

The couple married in June 2018 on the grounds of Leslie's family estate in Scotland.

Neither the change of nationality by one spouse nor marriage to a non citizen has any effect on one's citizenship.

The Code represents a considerable advance for married women who in the previous text had not been able to engage in business activities without authorization from their husbands.

The Netherlands thus became the first country to open up the institution of civil marriage to same sex couples.

In contrast to the previous situation, if a married woman reaches 60 years of age before her husband, she is now also eligible for the married person's pension.

This new provision will make the registration of husband's and wife's shared property as stipulated in the Law on Marriage and Family easier and at the same time ensure women's access to land.

With regard to women's participation at the international level, the main obstacle remained the requirement for married women to obtain their husbands' consent.

For married women, the choice of residence or family home lies with the husband, and the wife has the duty to live with him (article 331 of the Civil Code).

She also wondered how many women lived in polygamous marriages and how such marriages affected their income.

She divorced her husband.

This means that married women can only exercise their rights with the permission of their husbands.

Other traditional and cultural barriers to women's equality, such as forced marriages, child marriages and polygamy, needed more attention.

Concerning polygamous marriage, she noted that a husband who had originally contracted a monogamous marriage could change his mind and opt for a polygamous one.

Women living in polygamous marriages were not concubines or mistresses, such as could be found in other cultures they had official status and rights as wives.

Since then, same sex couples have been able to regulate their relationship legally in a way that is in most respects equivalent to a marriage.

'Khula' gives a right to the wife to seek the dissolution of marriage even on the grounds that a woman dislikes her husband and cannot live with him.

Many married women remained with their children without any financial support from their husbands.

It does not mean they will wear nothing in the wedding, but it shows that these young couples are ready to get married without a house, without a car, without a diamond ring and without a wedding banquet, to show their commitment to true love.

It should be stated, above all, that this law does not allow for polygamy, and the women have been given the right to decide, just like men, whether they would get married, when and to whom they would get married.

Under the new law, a married woman may engage in business trading activity but is not recognized as a trader unless her activity is separate from that of her spouse .

In order for a married woman to undergo artificial insemination, her husband's written consent, which has to be consistent with the consent granted by the woman, is necessary.

But she's married, so I'm going to have to get her split up from her husband.

Women (and men) are commonly forced into accepting the marriage partners chosen for them by their families, and widows can only marry the brother or cousin of the deceased husband.

A national who has an employment contract with the civil service of a foreign Government or a foreign army retains his her nationality for six months after receiving an injunction from the Government of the Niger to terminate the contract.

Among other things, new legislation would make polygamy the rule, rather than the exception, and would deprive women of an equal right to divorce. The Islamists could also impose the veil and later on the niqab.

But when dealing with women married in communion of goods, the law defines that both themselves and their husbands need each other's signatures to do away with (sell) property.

For those who left their husbands behind, they sometimes discovered on returning home that their husbands had remarried and often had spent all the money they had sent home to be saved.

Ms. Hodge alleged that she suffered discrimination in comparison with married couples who had separated and who received a survivor's pension on the death of the spouse.

Unmarried and married women have the same access to such benefits.

If the spouses were from different sects, did the husband's or the wife's law apply in the event of marriage or divorce.