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| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Married Women and the Law Tim Stretton, K.J. Kesselring, 2013-12-01 Explaining the curious legal doctrine of coverture, William Blackstone famously declared that by marriage, husband and wife are one person at law. This covering of a wife's legal identity by her husband meant that the greatest subordination of women to men developed within marriage. In England and its colonies, generations of judges, legislators, and husbands invoked coverture to limit married women's rights and property, but there was no monolithic concept of coverture and their justifications shifted to fit changing times: Were husband and wife lord and subject? Master and servant? Guardian and ward? Or one person at law? The essays in Married Women and the Law offer new insights into the legal effects of marriage for women from medieval to modern times. Focusing on the years prior to the passage of the Divorce Acts and Married Women's Property Acts in the late nineteenth century, contributors examine a variety of jurisdictions in the common law world, from civil courts to ecclesiastical and criminal courts. By bringing together studies of several common law jurisdictions over a span of centuries, they show how similar legal rules persisted and developed in different environments. This volume reveals not only legal changes and the women who creatively used or subverted coverture, but also astonishing continuities. Accessibly written and coherently presented, Married Women and the Law is an important look at the persistence of one of the longest lived ideas in British legal history. Contributors include Sara M. Butler (Loyola), Marisha Caswell (Queen’s), Mary Beth Combs (Fordham), Angela Fernandez (Toronto), Margaret Hunt (Amherst), Kim Kippen (Toronto), Natasha Korda (Wesleyan), Lindsay Moore (Boston), Barbara J. Todd (Toronto), and Danaya C. Wright (Florida). |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: The Changing Legal Regulation of Cohabitation Rebecca Probert, 2012-09-06 This book is for anyone interested in the history of marriage and cohabitation, whether historian, lawyer or general reader. It is written in an accessible style, while providing a radical reassessment of existing ideas about the popularity, legal treatment and perceptions of cohabitation between 1600 and 2010. |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Cohabitation, Marriage and the Law Anne Barlow, Simon Duncan, Grace James, Alison Park, 2005-06-23 Unmarried heterosexual cohabitation is rapidly increasing in Britain and over a quarter of children are now born to unmarried cohabiting parents. This is not just an important change in the way we live in modern Britain; it is also a political and theoretical marker. Some commentators see cohabitation as evidence of selfish individualism and the breakdown of the family, while others see it as just a less institutionalised way in which people express commitment and build their families. Politically, 'stable' families are seen as crucial - but does stability simply mean marriage? At present the law in Britain retains important distinctions in the way it treats cohabiting and married families and this can have deleterious effects on the welfare of children and partners on cohabitation breakdown or death of a partner. Should the law be changed to reflect this changing social reality? Or should it - can it - be used to direct these changes? Using findings from their recent Nuffield Foundation funded study, which combines nationally representative data with in-depth qualitative work, the authors examine public attitudes about cohabitation and marriage, provide an analysis of who cohabits and who marries, and investigate the extent and nature of the 'common law marriage myth' (the false belief that cohabitants have similar legal rights to married couples). They then explore why people cohabit rather than marry, what the nature of their commitment is to one another and chart public attitudes to legal change. In the light of this evidence, the book then evaluates different options for legal reform. |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Marriage, a History Stephanie Coontz, 2005 Just when the clamor over traditional marriage couldn't get any louder, along comes this groundbreaking book to ask, What tradition? In Marriage, a History, historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes readers from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the torments of Victorian lovers to demonstrate how recent the idea of marrying for love is - and how absurd it would have seemed to most of our ancestors. It was when marriage moved into the emotional sphere in the nineteenth century, she argues, that it suffered as an institution just as it began to thrive as a personal relationship. This enlightening and hugely entertaining book brings intelligence, perspective, and wit to today's marital debate. |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Marriage Law for Genealogists: The Definitive Guide ...What Everyone Tracing Their Family History Needs to Know about Where, When, Who and How Their Rebecca Probert, 2016-03-25 How should we interpret our ancestors' decisions to marry in a particular form or place, or at a particular time? Did their choices make them exceptional or normal for their day? Might their marriages have been bigamous, clandestine, or void? Or might they have conscientiously followed the rules set down by Church and State? Since its publication in 2012, Marriage Law for Genealogists has become the indispensable guide for everyone tracing the marriages of their English and Welsh ancestors between 1600 and the twentieth century. Based upon years of painstaking primary research and studies of thousands of couples, it explains clearly and concisely why, how, when and where people in past centuries married. Family historians just starting out will find advice on where 'missing' marriages are most likely to be found, while those who are already well advanced in tracing their family tree will be able to interpret their discoveries to better understand their ancestors' motivations. Rebecca Probert is Professor of Law at Warwick University and the leading authority on the history of the marriage laws of England and Wales, a subject on which she has written extensively. |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Legal Opinions Concerning the Church of England Legal Advisory Commission of the General Synod , 2007-05-01 Legal Opinions Concerning the Church of England contains the views of the Legal Advisory Commission of the General Synod, which gives legal advice to the General Synod, the Church Commissioners, diocesan registrars, chancellors, and other clerical and lay officers such as archdeacons and diocesan secretaries. It does not constitute a comprehensive volume on ecclesiastical law but is the jointly expressed views of the Commission on a wide range of legal matters of interest to the Church. This eighth edition contains many previously unpublished Opinions as well as a comprehensive updating and revision of the contents of previous editions. It is an indispensible reference work for all practitioners and students of ecclesiastical law. New or significantly revised Opinions include: The clergy and confidentiality Appointment of non-stipendiary ministers as incumbents Consecration of sites for 'green' burials Ownership of tombstones and monuments in churchyards Disturbances during services in cathedrals The right of a parishioner to be married in the parish church The legal responsibilities of PCC members |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Digest of the Law Relating to Common Law Marriage in the States, Territories, and Dependencies of the United States United States. Bureau of War Risk Insurance, 1919 |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Marriage, Separation, and Divorce in England, 1500-1700 K. J. Kesselring, Tim Stretton, 2022 England is well known as the only Protestant state not to introduce divorce in the sixteenth-century Reformation. Only at the end of the seventeenth century did divorce by private act of parliament become available for a select few men and only in 1857 did the Divorce Act and its creation of judicial divorces extend the possibility more broadly. Aspects of the history of divorce are well known from studies which typically privilege the records of the church courts that claimed a monopoly on marriage. But why did England alone of all Protestant jurisdictions not allow divorce with remarriage in the era of the Reformation, and how did people in failed marriages cope with this absence? One part of the answer to the first question, Kesselring and Stretton argue, and a factor that shaped people's responses to the second, lay in another distinctive aspect of English law: its common-law formulation of coverture, the umbrella term for married women's legal status and property rights. The bonds of marriage stayed tightly tied in post-Reformation England in part because marriage was as much about wealth as it was about salvation or sexuality, and English society had deeply invested in a system that subordinated a wife's identity and property to those of the man she married. To understand this dimension of divorce's history, this study looks beyond the church courts to the records of other judicial bodies, the secular courts of common law and equity, to bring fresh perspective to a history that remains relevant today. |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century Rebecca Probert, 2009-07-02 This book uses a wide range of primary sources - legal, literary and demographic - to provide a radical reassessment of eighteenth-century marriage. It disproves the widespread assumption that couples married simply by exchanging consent, demonstrating that such exchanges were regarded merely as contracts to marry and that marriage in church was almost universal outside London. It shows how the Clandestine Marriages Act of 1753 was primarily intended to prevent clergymen operating out of London's Fleet prison from conducting marriages, and that it was successful in so doing. It also refutes the idea that the 1753 Act was harsh or strictly interpreted, illustrating the courts' pragmatic approach. Finally, it establishes that only a few non-Anglicans married according to their own rites before the Act; while afterwards most - save the exempted Quakers and Jews - similarly married in church. In short, eighteenth-century couples complied with whatever the law required for a valid marriage. |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Child and Family Law Quarterly Jane Fortin, Mary Hayes, Gillian Douglas, Jonathan Herring, 2004-01-01 The leading journal on all aspects of child and family law |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Family Law Made Simple Slater & Gordon, Sarah Thompson, 2014 |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Forced Marriage Aisha Gill, Sundari Anitha, 2012-09-13 Forced Marriage: Introducing a social justice and human rights perspective brings together leading practitioners and researchers from the disciplines of criminology, sociology and law. Together the contributors provide an international, multi-disciplinary perspective that offers a compelling alternative to prevailing conceptualisations of the problem of forced marriage. The volume examines advances in theoretical debates, analyses existing research and presents new evidence that challenges the cultural essentialism that often characterises efforts to explain, and even justify, this violation of women's rights. By locating forced marriage within broader debates on violence against women, social justice and human rights, the authors offer an intersectional perspective that can be used to inform both theory and practical efforts to address violence against diverse groups of women. This unique book, which is informed by practitioner insights and academic research, is essential reading for practitioners and students of sociology, criminology, gender studies and law. |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: The London Diplomatic List Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1970 |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Common Law Marriage Göran Lind, 2008 This work presents a thorough legal history of common law marriage, from its origins to current law and possible future developments in law. The author researches current law by analyzing American cases and discussing the legal requirements for the establishment of a common law marriage. |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Married Women and the Law in Premodern Northwest Europe Cordelia Beattie, Matthew Frank Stevens, 2013 Fresh approaches to how premodern women were viewed in legal terms, demonstrating how this varied from country to country and across the centuries. |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Banns of Marriage Certificate Book Mb6 SPCK Publishing, 1986-01-31 This publication contains 48 marriage certificates with counterfoils. |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Common Worship: Pastoral Services Church of England, 2014-08-19 Offers liturgical material for the journey of each individual through life. For each key element of this journey (birth, marriage, healing, death), it provides both material for key ‘public’ events and resources for ‘private’ pastoral care. |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Church of England Marriage Services Peter Moger, 2014-08-05 Provides the complete Common Worship marriage service, plus hymns, readings and prayers to help couples and clergy plan the service with ease. Can also be used as an order of service on the day itself. |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Common Worship: Times and Seasons President's Edition Common Worship, 2013-07-15 This revised, expanded edition of the Common Worship President’s Edition contains everything to celebrate Holy Communion Order One throughout the church year. It combines relevant material from the original President’s Edition with Eucharistic material from Times and Seasons, Festivals and Pastoral Services, and the Additional Collects. |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: United States Code United States, 1989 |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: The History of the Common Law of England Matthew Hale, 1820 |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England, 1850-1895 Mary Lyndon Shanley, 2020-07-21 Bridging the fields of political theory and history, this comprehensive study of Victorian reforms in marriage law reshapes our understanding of the feminist movement of that period. As Mary Shanley shows, Victorian feminists argued that justice for women would not follow from public rights alone, but required a fundamental transformation of the marriage relationship. |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Parental Separation , 2004 Relationship breakdown is much more common than it was thirty years ago, and parental separation can have a traumatic effect on children, particularly where there is conflict involved. This Green Paper, published by the Department for Education and Skills, the Department for Constitutional Affairs and the Department for Trade and Industry, sets out the Government's proposals for the system determining parental access to children after a relationship breaks down. The proposals are based on the premise that both parents should continue to have a meaningful relationship with their children after separation, as long as it is safe; and they focus on the needs of the child and how parents can be better assisted to meet those needs during and after separation. Proposals include: introducing parenting plans to give parents good practice advice on parenting arrangements; improving access to legal and emotional/practical advice on how to resolve disputes by telephone and via the internet; developing an in-court conciliation system, where courts are focused on problem solving as an alternative to full contested court hearings, where possible; legal aid changes to give incentives for early resolution of disputes; changes to case management procedures in court; better enforcement of court orders; and shifting the emphasis of CAFCASS away from writing reports towards active problem solving and supporting agreements. The consultation proposals cover England and Wales and responses should be sent by 1st November 2004 to Parental Relationship Breakdown Consultation Team, Department for Constitutional Affairs, 4th Floor Selborne House, 54 Victoria Street, London WC1E 6QW or emailed to consult.childrensneeds@dca.gsi.gov.uk |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Marriage in Ireland Art Cosgrove, 1985 |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Bromley's Family Law Nigel V. Lowe, Gillian Douglas, 2015 'Bromley's Family Law' is a well-established and popular textbook with students and practitioners alike. This edition has been updated to take into account recent developments in family law. |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Justinian's Institutes Justinian I (Emperor of the East), 1987 |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Commentaries on the Laws of England William Blackstone, 1809 |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Common Law Marriage Goran Lind, 2008-09-02 The extraordinary recent increase in rates of cohabitation and non-marital birth presents a major challenge to traditional family law principles, and the legal rules governing cohabitation are thus among the most hotly contested areas of family law and policy today. In many nations, courts, legislatures, and law-reform bodies are reinventing common law marriage, seemingly without any sense of its history, doctrinal development, or limitations. The current law surrounding common law marriage is extremely complex. Professor Göran Lind has undertaken the demanding task of writing the most well-researched text on this topic to date. Separated into three Parts, Common Law Marriage covers the origins of the doctrine, its legal aspects in modern America, and the future of cohabitation law across the globe and in the 11 American jurisdictions that currently recognize common law marriage. It provides a cultural and historical history of the subject, from Ancient Roman Law to Medieval Canon Law, and analyzes over 2,000 American cases which have utilized the doctrine. This timely book is an excellent resource for scholars, legislators, and policymakers who are interested in the complex legalities of common law marriage. |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: LIVE-IN RELATIONSHIP AND RIGHTS OF WOMEN Dr. Sonika Mathur, 2024-10-04 India is a country having strong cultural foundation and high moral values. Marriage (matrimonial relationship or wedlock) in India has secured a sacred place and it is a general conception that marriage is a heavenly creature which is celebrated on earth. In India, marriage is a sacred bonding between two heterogeneous persons by which kinship is created and mutual rights and obligations are generated by this relationship. It is also a general conception that cohabitation between man and woman can only be done through bonding of marriage and for cohabitation, no other relationships is allowed between them. Marriage is a divine concept which has been practiced since ages. Interpersonal relationships which are generally intimate and sexual in nature are acknowledged by the marriage. It is also a social obligation to keep a man and woman together and since a woman is considered to be the better half of man, so, many of the rituals are considered to be incomplete unless it is to be performed by both husband and wife together. Hence in addition to be a social obligation, it is very much customary in nature also and necessary for the strengthening and progress of society. Apart from imposing family obligations, marriage also provides legal shield to the children and it is a public declaration regarding the legitimacy of the children. |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Family Life, Family Law, and Family Justice Marsha Garrison, 2022-10-28 Family Life, Family Law, and Family Justice: Tying the Knot combines history, social science, and legal analysis to chart the evolution and interdependence of family life and family law, portray current trends in family life, explain the pressing policy challenges these trends have produced, and analyze the changes in family law that are essential to meeting these challenges. The challenges are large and pressing. Across the industrialized West, nonmarital birth, relational stress, multi-partner fertility, and relationship dissolution have increased, producing a dramatic rise in single parenthood, poverty, and childhood risk. This concentration of familial and economic risk accelerates socioeconomic inequality and retards intergenerational mobility. Although the divide is most pronounced in the United States, the same patterns now affect families throughout the Western world. Across the European Union, there are 9.2 million lone parents, and just under half of their families live in poverty. Tying the Knot demonstrates how today’s family patterns are deeply rooted in long-standing, class-based differences in family life and explains why these class-based differences have accelerated. It explains how the values that guide family law development inevitably reflect the world in which families live and develops a new family law capable of meeting the needs of twenty-first century families. The book will be of considerable interest to family specialists from a number of fields, including law, demography, economics, history, political science, public health, social policy, and sociology. |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Modern Family Law D Kelly Weisberg, Courtney G Joslin, 2024 Cases and materials on family law for law students taking a family law course-- |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics , 1925 |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: The Legal Status of Women in the United States of America, January 1, 1938 Ethel Lombard Best, Florence Patteson Smith, Harriet Anne Byrne, Jean Collier Brown, Margaret Jane Thompson Mettert, Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon, Sara Louise Buchanan, Arthur Theodore Southerland, 1937 |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Unmarried Couples, Law, and Public Policy Cynthia Grant Bowman, 2010-04-14 In Unmarried Couples, Law, and Public Policy, Cynthia Grant Bowman explores legal recognition of opposite-sex cohabiting couples in the United States. Unmarried cohabitation has increased at a phenomenal rate in the U.S. over the last few decades, but the law has not responded to the legal issues raised by this new family form. Although a majority of cohabiting unions dissolve within the first two years, many are longer in term and function like other families; a large number of children also reside in these households. If one partner dies, is injured, or leaves the family, the remaining family members are left in an extremely vulnerable position in almost every state without any type of survivors' benefits, compensation for loss of a wage-earning partner, or remedies similar to those available upon dissolution of a marriage. The author argues that the many benefits attendant upon formal marriage should be extended to cohabitants who have lived together for more than two years or give birth to a child. In order to avoid these consequences, a couple would need to opt out of them by contract. Professor Bowman reaches this conclusion after a thorough review of the history of the legal treatment of cohabitation in the United States, the inadequacy of the legal remedies available to cohabitants in most states, the now-voluminous social science literature about cohabitation, and the experience of six other countries (England, Canada, Australia, France, The Netherlands, and Sweden) that have attempted a variety of legal reforms to address the problems of cohabitants. |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Marriage and Cohabitation Arland Thornton, William G. Axinn, Yu Xie, 2008-09-15 In an era when half of marriages end in divorce, cohabitation has become more commonplace and those who do get married are doing so at an older age. So why do people marry when they do? And why do some couples choose to cohabit? A team of expert family sociologists examines these timely questions in Marriage and Cohabitation, the result of their research over the last decade on the issue of union formation. Situating their argument in the context of the Western world’s 500-year history of marriage, the authors reveal what factors encourage marriage and cohabitation in a contemporary society where the end of adolescence is no longer signaled by entry into the marital home. While some people still choose to marry young, others elect to cohabit with varying degrees of commitment or intentions of eventual marriage. The authors’ controversial findings suggest that family history, religious affiliation, values, projected education, lifetime earnings, and career aspirations all tip the scales in favor of either cohabitation or marriage. This book lends new insight into young adult relationship patterns and will be of interest to sociologists, historians, and demographers alike. |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Oregon Law Review , 1992 Vol. 1-14 include the proceedings of the Oregon Bar Association, previously issued separately as: Proceedings of the Oregon Bar Association at its ... annual meeting. |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: A Report on Marriage and Divorce in the United States, 1867-1886 United States. Bureau of Labor, Carroll Davidson Wright, 1889 |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: A Report on Marriage and Divorce in the United States United States. Bureau of Labor, 1889 |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Mexico and the United States Matías Romero, 1898 |
| common law marriage in the united kingdom: Manual of Industrial and Commercial Intercourse Between the United States and Spanish America ... Thomas Savage, 1889 |
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