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MARIAGE COVENANT [1 record]

Record 1 2010-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

An optional form of marriage which is harder to enter and harder to leave than the usual sort. It requires pre-marital counselling, and it allows divorce only under tight conditions : abandonment, two years separation, adultery, physical or sexual abuse, or if a spouse gets sentenced in court to hard labour or death. Concept passed into law in Louisiana on August 15, 1997.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
DEF

Dans un mariage covenant entre un homme et une femme, certains principes essentiels sont indispensables et intégrés à cette relation en raison de la nature même des deux sexes, que l'on qualifie parfois de genres, en présence. Il n'existe que deux genres hétérosexuels, l'homme et la femme, et non pas trois ou cinq.

OBS

Voir «covenant de droit» (covenant in law).

Spanish

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