Sentences with phrase «marriage in the eyes of the law»

We need to allow any two people to come together in marriage in the eyes of the law.

Divorce is more than a legal process: Divorce is usually thought of as only a legal process in which couples hire lawyers, may go to court, and come out with a document (some paperwork) that officially ends the marriage in the eyes of the law.

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And yet, if same - sex marriage is to be truly equal to natural marriage in the eyes of society and the law, then all the rights and privileges of marriage — including those involving the procreation and rearing of children — must in principle belong to both kinds of marriage, irrespective of the motives impelling a couple toward marriage or whether, once married, they exercise these rights and privileges.

• The same - sex marriage law (2005), publicly defended as an initiative to grant equality of rights and to allow gays and lesbians to look others squarely in the eye.

The two pretend to be domestic partners, which in the eyes of the laws of the Stae, is as binding as a marriage for these purposes.

In the eyes of the law a marriage is an equal partnership.

Formal declaration that a marriage is void, with the effect that the marriage is considered never to have taken place in the eyes of the law.

Many Muslim couples do not register their religious marriage, so that on breakdown of the marriage, or the death of one spouse, there is no possibility of obtaining a civil divorce or exercising their rights as a spouse, because they are simply not married, either in life or on death, in the eye of the law.