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Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishWhereas every person in Saint Lucia is entitled to the fundamental rights and freedoms, that is to say, the right, whatever his or her race, place of origin, political opinions, colour, creed or sex, but subject to respect for the rights and freedoms of others and for the public interest, to each and all of the following, namely—
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(c) protection for his or her family life, his or her personal privacy, the privacy of his or her home and other property and from deprivation of property without compensation,
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Marriage and Family Life
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Marriage and the family shall be protected by the State.
The State pays great attention to consolidating the family, the basic unit of social life. (Art. 78) - Korean
결혼과 가정은 국가의 보호를 받는다.
국가는 사회의 기층생활단위인 가정을 공고히 하는데 깊은 관심을 돌린다. (제78조)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishMother and child shall enjoy special protection.
The state shall create the conditions that encourage childbirth. (Art. 73) - MontenegrinMajka i dijete uživaju posebnu zaštitu.
Država stvara uslove kojima se podstiče rađanje djece. (Član 73)
Marriage and Family Life
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[The following] are of the domain of the law:
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- … the status and the capacity of the persons, marriage, divorce, and inheritance;
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تدخل في مجال القانون:
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- … حالة الأشخاص و أهليتهم، الزواج، الطلاق و الميراث،
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Sont du domaine de la loi :
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- … l'état et la capacité des personnes, le mariage, le divorce, les successions ;
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Marriage and Family Life
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Mothers and fathers or their representatives shall be at liberty to choose for their daughters and sons an education that is in line with their principles, beliefs, and pedagogical options. (Art. 29) - Spanish…
Las madres y padres o sus representantes tendrán la libertad de escoger para sus hijas e hijos una educación acorde con sus principios, creencias y opciones pedagógicas. (Art. 29)
Marriage and Family Life
- English… Every parent or guardian has the right to select the teachers or institutions he desires for the education of his children or wards. (Art. 68)
- Spanish… Todo padre o tutor tiene derecho a elegir, para la enseñanza de sus hijos o pupilos, los maestros e instituciones que desee. (Art. 68)
Marriage and Family Life
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(b) The Union shall enact necessary laws for Civil Services personnel to have security and sufficiency of food, clothing and shelter, to get maternity benefits for married women in service, and to ease livelihood for welfare of retired Service personnel. (Sec. 26) - Burmese
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(ခ) နိုင်ငံတော်သည် နိုင်ငံ့ဝန်ထမ်းများ၏ လုပ်ငန်းခွင်အာမခံချက်ရရှိရေး၊ စားဝတ်နေမှု ဖူလုံရေး၊ အိမ်ထောင်ရှင်အမျိုးသမီးဝန်ထမ်းများ မီးဖွားခြင်းဆိုင်ရာ အကျိုးခံစားခွင့်ရရှိရေး နှင့် အငြိမ်းစားဝန်ထမ်းများ စားဝတ်နေမှု သက်သာချောင်ချိရေးတို့အတွက် လိုအပ် သည့် ဥပဒေများ ပြဌာန်းရမည်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၂၆)
Marriage and Family Life
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(1) Every woman shall have equal lineage right without gender-based discrimination.
(2) Every woman shall have the right to safe motherhood and reproductive health.
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(6) The husband and wife shall have the equal right to property and family affairs. (Art. 38) - Nepali
(१) प्रत्येक महिलालाई लैंगिक भेदभाव विना समान वंशीय हक हुनेछ ।
(२) प्रत्येक महिलालाई सुरक्षित मातृत्व र प्रजनन स्वास्थ्य सम्बन्धी हक हुनेछ ।
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(६) सम्पत्ति तथा पारिवारिक मामिलामा दम्पतीको समान हक हुनेछ । (धारा ३८)
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(2) Citizens have the right to pensions, paid maternity leave, medical care in public health centres, unemployment benefits, and other forms of public or private social securities, as stipulated by the law. Citizens have the right to social assistance, according to the law. (Art. 47) - Romanian…
(2) Cetăţenii au dreptul la pensie, la concediu de maternitate plătit, la asistenţă medicală în unităţile sanitare de stat, la ajutor de şomaj şi la alte forme de asigurări sociale publice sau private, prevăzute de lege. Cetăţenii au dreptul şi la măsuri de asistenţă socială, potrivit legii. (Art. 47)
Marriage and Family Life
- English(1) The Sharia Court of Appeal shall, in addition to such other jurisdiction as may be conferred upon it by an Act of the National Assembly, exercise such appellate and supervisory jurisdiction in civil proceedings involving questions of Islamic personal law.
(2) For the purpose of subsection (1) of this section, the Sharia Court of Appeal shall be competent to decide –
(a) any question of Islamic personal law regarding a marriage concluded in accordance with that law, including a question relating to the validity or dissolution of such a marriage or a question that depends on such a marriage and relating to family relationship or the guardianship of an infant;
(b) where all the parties to the proceeding are Muslims, any question of Islamic personal law regarding a marriage, including the validity or dissolution of that marriage, or regarding family relationship, a foundling or the guardianship of an infant;
(c) any question of Islamic personal law regarding a wakf, gift, will or succession where the endower, donor, testator or deceased person is a Muslim;
(d) any question of Islamic personal law regarding an infant, prodigal or person of unsound mind who is a Muslim or the maintenance or the guardianship of a Muslim who is physically or mentally infirm; or
(e) where all the parties to the proceedings, being Muslims, have requested the court that hears the case in the first instance to determine that case in accordance with Islamic personal law, any other question. (Sec. 262)