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marriage

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Part II will examine current child marriage laws in the United States and discuss the variations in state child marriage laws.

STATE REGULATIONS ARE FAILING OUR CHILDREN: AN ANALYSIS OF CHILD MARRIAGE LAWS IN THE UNITED STATES

Lebanese Forces MP Fadi Saad, the party's former secretary-general, said that while he personally supported a civil marriage law, the LF had not yet made a decision binding the 15 MPs in its bloc.

Which MPs support optional civil marriage?

The author's account on the marriage registration, as a system promoted by the state-based Marriage Law, must be refreshing for those practitioners: 'The very design of the marriage registration process, I argue, is built upon normative ideas of individual autonomy and free will, thus dispensing with, or at [least] minimizing rituals that promote a more dynamic form of marriage' (p.

Marriage, Gender and Islam in Indonesia: Women Negotiating Informal Marriage, Divorce, and Desire

The decision to repeal the marriage law was made a month ago.

Women's Rights Used to Cover-up a Counter-revolution, Tunisian Activists Claim

The decision, it said, also took into consideration the findings of the report of the human rights commissioner, which expressed the view that the requirement of disclosure of religious beliefs through the marriage law, "violates human rights, exposes persons to discrimination and violation of rights of a person in respect of privacy and freedom of thinking, conscience and religion".

Religious affiliation to be removed from marriage certificates

The Oneida Tribe also illustrates how marriage is an especially complex area of the law when it comes to self-determination, because in some instances, having an assimilationist marriage law might promote tribal governmental power more than having a nonconforming one.

Why Obergefell should not impact American Indian tribal marriage laws

KARACHI -- For the first time in the country's history, marriage laws for millions of Hindus living in Sindh have been codified after the Sindh Assembly approved the Hindu Marriage Bill, 2016, on Monday.

Sindh Assembly approves Hindu Marriage Bill

To an extent, this may explain why Pakistan could not enact a Hindu marriage law until now.

Hindu Marriage Law Need, Impediments and Policy Guidelines

The story begins with Iowa's Defense of Marriage Act, an anti-gay marriage law passed in 1998.

Equal Before the Law

(2) The oral arguments (3) at the Court, which occurred on April 28, 2015, were muddy in regard to the goals of marriage law. The justices and the advocates were not crisp in thinking through how the Court should evaluate the states' marriage goals in the jurisprudential terms for constitutional law of "tiers of review." (4) The result was, in my view, an inadequate consideration of why it is or is not important for every state to include same-sex couples in their marriage licensing, particularly when there is the alternative of requiring states simply to recognize marriages that other states authorize.

Creditable marriage goals and government interests: a systems approach for handling complexity, apportioning expertise, and using federalism (anticipating Obergefell)

HUNDREDS of gay couples have wed after the change in the same-sex marriage law.

Campaigners' joy as law change heralds 462 same-sex marriages

WASHINGTON -- Just two years ago, the Supreme Court struck down part of the federal anti-gay marriage law that denied a range of government benefits to legally married same-sex couples.