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    Family Law

    Family law – deals with marriage, divorce, adoption, child custody, and support,
    and other domestic related issues.
    Popular notions of the family are often connected with the concept of marriage.
    Who may get married and what formalities are required are matters usually
    regulated by law and the extent to which the law should intervene is the matter
    for debate.
    Legal capacity to marry is fulfilled when an individual is of legal age, mentally
    competent and not already married. Age requirements generally
    range from 16 to 18 years old (in our country, for girls-17 and for boys-18).
    Mental competence requires that a person should understand the nature and
    consequences of marriage at the time of the act. Both parties must freely consent
    to marriage.
    A valid marriage usually requires that certain formalities should be compiled with.
    Some legal systems recognize civil marriages performed by a state official, other
    legal systems recognize only religious marriages celebrated by particular religious
    officials, while yet others recognize both. But in our country marriage is valid
    when it is registered by vital registration.
    Marriages have important consequences for the spouses, third parties and for the
    community. From the point of view of spouses marriage is important for the
    acquisition of nationality or domicile or in deciding who owns property acquired
    by them after marriage and so on. The third parties most often affected by
    marriage are the children of the couple. It can affect the right of the child to claim
    nationality through a parent or to inherit property when a parent dies. It can also
    affect the right of the parent (usually the father) to have custody over a child.
    Marriages do not always work and it falls to the legal system to set out the rules
    for divorce. Though divorce is commonplace nowadays, it’s rarely easy or
    smooth. Each party to a divorce has his or her own concerns, and the nature of
    a couple’s disagreement varies widely with circumstances.
    The most significant consequences of divorce involve the division of the
    couple’s property and the future arrangements for the care of their children.
    Parties may wish to make arrangements on these matters themselves and, while
    some legal systems allow this, others require that arrangements should be
    subject to some kind of official approval. When the parties cannot reach
    agreement, it is up to the legal system to provide a mechanism for resolving
    these problems.

    Property settlement tries to achieve an equitable division of the assets of the


    marriage and typically divide those assets by way of lump – sum payments or
    specific awards of particular items of property to one or the other party. Assets
    are determined and evaluated based on several factors, typically the parties’
    contributions including home making and child rearing services, and other
    equities, such as what property the parties brought to the marriage and the
    duration of the marriage.

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