Conclusion of marriage: the basic requirements and order of registration

Conclusion and termination of marriage in any country in the world carry not only purely legal significance, but also a huge layer of interrelated traditions and customs. Despite everything, the family is still a key social institution.

It is worth noting that the marriage union is a voluntary, equal relationship between the respectful man and woman, properly handled in the relevant bodies, generating personal and property relations.

The conclusion of marriage is made in bodies of the REGISTRY OFFICE. Here it is necessary to pay attention to the fact that there is simply no so-called church marriage in the Russian legislation, therefore, before going to the church, the newlyweds must necessarily visit the registry office.
Otherwise, their marriage will not be legally recognized.

From the point of view of the current Russian legislation, a marriage is possible if:

1. Both parties express a voluntary consent to register their relationship. However, the Russian Family Code allows only gay marriage.

2. The future spouses have reached the age of marriage, which in the Russian Federation is currently eighteen years. True, it is worth noting that you can get married at the age of sixteen, but this requires good reasons and the consent of the parents.

In addition, there are several other conditions in which presence of marriage can be recognized as invalid. First, if one of the spouses (or both) is already officially married. Secondly, marriage can not be concluded between close relatives, which are parents and children, grandparents and grandchildren, as well as full-blooded or stepbrothers and sisters. Thirdly, an insurmountable obstacle for the official registration of relations is the recognition of one of the potential spouses as legally incompetent due to a mental disorder.

Recently, marriage with a foreigner in Russia has become quite common.

There is one very important nuance: a foreigner who marries in our country should not at the same time violate his own legislation.

With regard to the termination of marriage, the two main reasons for it are the legally recorded death of one of the spouses, as well as the appropriately dissolving of the marriage. The latter, in turn, can be carried out either in administrative (notifying) or in court.

The administrative procedure is applicable in cases when one of the spouses is declared missing after the deadline, convicted to imprisonment or recognized incompetent by the court. In addition, without legal proceedings, marriage can be terminated if the spouses do not have underage children, and there are no property disagreements between them.

In other cases, the marriage is dissolved solely in the courts. The simplest option is related to cases where the spouses have no complaints against each other, but in the family there are underage children by the time of the divorce. In this case, the divorce procedure does not exceed three months. The greatest difficulty is caused by the process when there are disputes over joint property. Here, the proceedings can last for years.