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Marriage and Family Life
Azerbaijan
- EnglishI. Everybody has the right to marriage upon reaching the age specified by law.
II. Marriage is contracted on the basis of voluntary consent. No one shall be forced to marry.
III. Family and marriage are under the protection of the State. Mothers, fathers and children shall be protected by law. The State renders assistance to large families.
IV. The rights of husband and wife are equal. The care and raising of children is the right and obligation of both parents.
V. Children have the obligation to take care of their parents. Able-bodied children upon reaching the age of 18 have the duty to support their invalid parents. (Art. 34) - AzerbaijaniI. Hər kəsin qanunla nəzərdə tutulmuş yaşa çatdıqda ailə qurmaq hüququ vardır.
II. Nikah könüllü razılıq əsasında bağlanılır. Heç kəs zorla evləndirilə (ərə verilə) bilməz.
III. Nikah və ailə dövlətin himayəsindədir. Analıq, atalıq, uşaqlıq qanunla mühafizə edilir. Dövlət çoxuşaqlı ailələrə yardım göstərir.
IV. Ər ilə arvadın hüquqları bərabərdir. Uşaqlara qayğı göstərmək, onları tərbiyə etmək valideynlərin həm hüququ, həm də borcudur.
V. Valideynlərə hörmət etmək, onların qayğısına qalmaq uşaqların borcudur. 18 yaşına çatmış əmək qabiliyyətli uşaqlar əmək qabiliyyəti olmayan valideynlərini saxlamağa borcludurlar. (Maddə 34)
Marriage and Family Life
Poland
- English1. Men and women shall have equal rights in family, political, social and economic life in the Republic of Poland.
… (Art. 33) - Polish1. Kobieta i mężczyzna w Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej mają równe prawa w życiu rodzinnym, politycznym, społecznym i gospodarczym.
… (Art. 33)
Marriage and Family Life
Senegal
- English… Every citizen has the duty to subscribe to civil status those acts that concern them and those that are relative to their family under the conditions determined by the law. (Art. 25-3)
- French… Tout citoyen a le devoir d’inscrire à l’état civil les actes le concernant et ceux qui sont relatifs à sa famille dans les conditions déterminées par la loi. (Art. 25-3)
Marriage and Family Life
Guyana
- English(1) Subject to the provisions of this article -
(a) no law shall make any provision that is discriminatory either of itself or in its effect; and
(b) no person shall be treated in a discriminatory manner by any person acting by virtue of any written law or in the performance of the functions of any public office or any public authority.
(2) In this article the expression ‘discriminatory’ means affording different treatment to different persons attributable wholly or mainly to their or their parents’ or guardians’ respective descriptions by race, place of origin, political opinion, colour, creed, age, disability, marital status, sex, gender, language, birth, social class, pregnancy, religion, conscience, belief or culture whereby persons of one such description are subjected to disabilities or restrictions to which other persons of the same or another such description are not made subject or are accorded privileges or advantages which are not afforded to persons of another such description.(3) Paragraph (1)(a) shall not apply to any law so far as that law makes provision -
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(b) with respect to adoption, marriage, divorce, burial, devolution of property on death or other matters of personal law;
… (Art. 149)
Marriage and Family Life
Pakistan
- EnglishThe State shall protect the marriage, the family, the mother and the child. (Art. 35)
- Urduمملکت شادی، خاندان، ماں اور بچے کی حفاظت کرے گی۔ (آرٹیکل ۳۵)
Marriage and Family Life
San Marino
- EnglishThe Republic shall protect the institution of the family, based on moral and legal equality of spouses. Mothers shall be entitled to assistance and protection by the community.
Children born outside wedlock shall enjoy spiritual, legal and social protection and be treated on an equal footing as legitimate children. (Art. 12) - ItalianLa Repubblica tutela l'istituto familiare, fondato sulla uguaglianza morale e giuridica dei coniugi. Ogni madre ha diritto all'assistenza ed alla protezione della comunità.
La legge garantirà ai figli nati fuori dal matrimonio ogni tutela spirituale, giuridica e sociale assicurando lo stesso trattamento dei figli legittimi. (Art. 12)
Marriage and Family Life
South Sudan
- EnglishThe privacy of all persons shall be inviolable; no person shall be subjected to interference with his or her private life, family, home or correspondence, save in accordance with the law. (Art. 22)
Marriage and Family Life
Sri Lanka
- English…
10. Registration of births, marriages and deaths.
… (Ninth Schedule, List III, Concurrent List) - Sinhala…
10. උප්පැන්න, විවාහ සහ මරණ ලියාපදිංචි කිරීම.
… (නව වැනි උපලේඛනය, III වැනි ලැයිස්තුව, සමගාමී ලැයිස්තුව)
Marriage and Family Life
Spain
- English1. The State shall have exclusive competence over the following matters:
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8) Civil legislation, without prejudice to the preservation, modification and development by the Autonomous Communities of their civil law, foral or special, whenever these exist, and traditional charts. In any event rules for the application and effectiveness of legal provisions, civil relations arising from the forms of marriage, keeping of records and drawing up to public instruments, bases of contractual liability, rules for resolving conflicts of law and determination of the sources of law in conformity, in this last case, with the rules of traditional charts or with those of foral or special laws.
… (Sec. 149) - Spanish1. El Estado tiene competencia exclusiva sobre las siguientes materias:
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8ª. Legislación civil, sin perjuicio de la conservación, modificación y desarrollo por las Comunidades Autónomas de los derechos civiles, forales o especiales, allí donde existan. En todo caso, las reglas relativas a la aplicación y eficacia de las normas jurídicas, relaciones jurídico-civiles relativas a las formas de matrimonio, ordenación de los registros e instrumentos públicos, bases de las obligaciones contractuales, normas para resolver los conflictos de leyes y determinación de las fuentes del Derecho, con respeto, en este último caso, a las normas del derecho foral o especial.
… (Art. 149)
Marriage and Family Life
Chad
- EnglishThe customary and traditional rules governing the matrimonial regimes and inheritance may only be applicable with the consent of the parties concerned.
In default of consent, the national law alone is applicable.
It is the same in case of conflict between two [2] or more customary rules. (Art. 162) - Arabicلا يجوز تطبيق القواعد العرفية والتقليدية التي تحكم أنظمة الزواج إلا بموافقة الأطراف المعنية.
في غياب الموافقة، يكون القانون الوطني الوحيد الواجب تطبيقه.
يطبق القانون نفسه في حالة وجود تعارض بين قاعدتين [2] عرفيتين أو أكثر. (المادة 162) - FrenchLes règles coutumières et traditionnelles régissant les régimes matrimoniaux et les successions ne peuvent s'appliquer qu'avec le consentement des parties concernées.
A défaut de consentement, la loi nationale est seule applicable.
Il en est de même en cas de conflit entre deux (2) ou plusieurs règles coutumières. (Art. 162)