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

In a legal separation, the spouses divide the assets and liabilities, provide for the custody of children, and set up financial support payments, but remain married in the eyes of the law.

Couples publicly celebrated their unions with deeply cherished ceremonies while knowing they were not considered married in the eyes of the law.

Having never been married in the eyes of the law, no matter how many decades living as spouses, gay and lesbian partners must invent their own forms of matrimony, and negotiate different kinds of separations than straight couples.

Collaborative Divorce, using the Interdisciplinary Model, is beneficial for all couples who are separating, whether they are legally married spouses or same sex couples who are not married in the eyes of the law.

Not exact matches

When two people live in a committed relationship for decades and some hospital functionary bars one from visiting the other in the hospital because they can't marry and hence are technically unrelated in the eyes of the law, that is a civil rights issue.

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.

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A poor tennis pro caught up in the lives of wealthy Londoners the Hewetts, he quickly progresses from family friend to family member, marrying Chloe (Emily Mortimer) but always with one eye on his brother - in - law's American fiancée.

The 2004 Act ended generations of inequality by giving same - sex couples not only the right to have their relationship recognised in the eyes of the law but also to equal rights with those of married couples regarding tax, property, death and other matters.

It is perhaps one of the most enduring legal «urban myths»: that a man and woman who live together for many years, support each, maybe have children together, are viewed in the eyes of the law as being married and so when their relationship ends, they will be entitled to receive a fair share of their home and any other assets.

We often speak of divorce loosely, however, in the eyes of the law a divorce is only applicable to married couples.

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.

However, in the eyes of the law, the couple is still married, which means that neither spouse is free to marry anyone else.

This form of separation, since not recognized as a legal separation, may result in the spouse's legal rights being impacted (since in the eyes of the law, you are still married).