Civil marriage – the pros and cons. The rights of a common-law family

The content of the article

• Arguments FOR Civil Marriage
• Arguments AGAINST Civil Marriage
• Jointly acquired property
• Married child
• Alimony
• Church attitude
• Sociological studies of civil marriage, statistics

With the concept of “civil marriage” we are increasingly found in modern society. It inherits the European form of relations and is interpreted as coexistence of heterogeneous people on the same living space, built on love and an oral contract. Psychologists pay much attention to this type of marriage, prove and dispute its advantages and disadvantages. What are the pros and cons of a civil marriage? Bad or good living in a civil marriage?

Arguments FOR Civil Marriage

There are many advantages to this type of relationship:

1. Living together allows you to “get used to” and get to know each other. Indeed, during the candy-bouquet period of meetings, each of the couple wants to please his partner, demonstrating only advantages and hiding disadvantages.
2. Negative sides of personality begin to emerge during the period of life together. And a loved one may not live up to your expectations. Having lived in a civil marriage a little, you will be able to get to know your chosen one in the best way and decide whether you should connect your life with him or better to leave.
3. Many couples are delayed with the decision on what to do next, getting stuck in such a marriage. Psychologists have calculated that the “critical age” of civil marriage is four years. After this time, you must definitely solve something.
4. Many young people believe that their love is stronger if they remain out of wedlock. Their relationship is equal and free. That is, they are together for love, and not because they are united by life, children, and other reasons that bind married people. There is an opportunity to leave at any time without wasting time on paper issues.
5. If the relationship is defeated, the advantage of a mural without marriage is that you do not need to share property, experiencing additional stress and frustration.
6. Some couples save their budget this way, not wanting to spend money on a celebration, but investing them in more practical things.

Arguments AGAINST Civil Marriage

Along with the advantages, there are also disadvantages of cohabitation without a stamp in the passport:

• All girls want to wear a wedding dress and have an official status. But if a young man is not going to make an offer in the foreseeable future, the girl continues to live in illusions, having this kind of marriage. This gives rise to scandals, both at the domestic and sexual levels and the girl’s self-doubt.
• Parented on the moral principles of the Soviet period, parents and the older generation may condemn such relationships and not even accept them. Result – Conflicts and disagreements with loved ones.
• In a legal marriage, both a woman and a man feel more confident. This is especially true of the stronger sex. An official husband usually has a sense of responsibility for his wife and family only when a stamp appears on his passport.

• If you have children, it will be easier to get alimony from a man in a broken relationship while legally married. Civil marriage does not impose any obligations on him, and the procedure for registration of alimony will require more time and effort.
• A man who does not dare to offer his beloved for a long time is not sure that he wants to live with her all his life. In most cases, he is still looking at his partner and is in search of.
• Having been in such a marriage for a long time, relationships become obsolete, and people become uninteresting together. There comes a time when further development and transition to a new stage is required.

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Jointly acquired property

Civil marriage is only verbal marriage. Legally, he is not fixed by anything. In most cases, partners believe that it will end with a wedding and there will be nothing to share among themselves. This is simply cohabitation, and the division of property cannot be carried out even if it was all acquired by both partners. The law and the Family Code do not provide for such a section if it is recorded on one of the cohabitants.

You should act wisely while living in such a marriage, and not register all the property with one of the cohabitants. Since in the case of a section, everything will go to the person on whom it is issued.

Nevertheless, in judicial practice, there is a way that allows you to share jointly acquired property between the two parties, even if the woman is a housewife. For this, a statement of claim is drawn up, in which it is necessary:

• describe in detail everything about living together and conducting a joint household;
• indicate the relevant documents and persons who can confirm the purchase of especially valuable things when you live together;
• indicate the property that you consider jointly acquired, persons and documents confirming this.

The procedure will take several months, but can lead to positive results, and you will sue your share from the former roommate.

Married child

If a child is born in a family where the parents do not have a stamp in the passport, there are no special difficulties with the registration of the newborn. Information about the parents is entered in the medical certificate in the hospital. And if the newly made dad confirms his paternity, then in the corresponding column write down his data.

After that, the parents within one month provide this certificate together with their passports to the registry office, where they are issued with the birth certificate of the child. A man needs to write a declaration of paternity. But do not forget – the birth of a child is not a reason to drag a loved one to the registry office. He may not dare to do this..

Alimony

According to the law, alimony from a man is collected, regardless of whether there is a stamp in the passport on the official registration of marriage with a woman (if he confirmed the fact of paternity, and the child is recorded in the man’s name). Upon confirmation of this fact, the child automatically becomes the heir and receives the appropriate rights.

A woman has the right to go to court with a claim for the recovery of alimony, even if she is not divorced. This procedure will take more time than if a marriage were registered between the mother and father. But agreeing amicably and concluding an agreement on the payment of alimony, certified by a notary, it is not worth going to court and apply.

Church attitude

The term “civil marriage” itself is a registered union. Recently, this phrase has a different application. The Church treats such a registered union with respect and considers it a full-fledged family. And the type of relationship, which is now called this phrase, the Church does not recognize, considers prodigal cohabitation and sin.

From her point of view, such marriage is based on distrust and insecurity, and relations should be built only on love. This is a calculation in which there is no place for love and mutual understanding. People remain alien to each other. Priests say that things that began with sin cannot end in good, and they can prevent people with such relationships from participating in communion..

Sociological studies of civil marriage, statistics

The study of civil marriage is carried out not only by psychologists, but also by sociologists. As a result of their surveys and experiments, a tendency toward an increase in the number of such unions at the present stage was revealed. According to studies, such relationships are characteristic of people under thirty years of age. The position of both parties living in such a marriage with respect to official registration is interesting:

• 19% of women are going to register marriage compulsory, even in the absence of pregnancy.
• 30% – categorically refuse to change their status if they are not expecting a child.
• 5.2% – intend to do this if they become pregnant.
• 3% – are ready to register a marriage if they give birth to a child.
• men prefer to refrain from such polls.

Half of the respondents, regardless of gender, believe that legally concluded marriage must be preceded by cohabitation. 41% believe that this is possible only after registration. The reasons for the popularity of such a union, you can see in the photo.

Whatever opinions are expressed by psychologists, the Church, society – how to live and how to build your relations is up to you. Relations built on trust, mutual understanding and love will be strong in any case, regardless of whether they are legally fixed or not.

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