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Family law
Law that deals with family-related issues such as spousal abuse, legitimacy, adoption, surrogacy, child abuse, and child abduction.
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Female husband marriage
Legal services; Family law
A marriage in which a female who has been raised as male takes a wife in order to ensure the continuity of the family.
Covenant marriage
Legal services; Family law
A marriage in which the couple agrees to obtain pre-marital counselling before marrying, and accept more limited grounds for divorce.
Marriage by abduction
Legal services; Family law
A form of forced marriage in which a women who is kidnapped and raped by a man is registered as his wife.
Fleet marriage
Legal services; Family law
The best-known example of an irregular or cladestine marriage taking place in England before 1753.
Ghost marriage
Legal services; Family law
The marriage of a woman to a man who died before he could marry using the man's brother as a stand-in.
Forced marriage
Legal services; Family law
A marriage in which one or more of the parties is married without his/her will.
Endogamous
Legal services; Family law
A marriage within the boundaries of the domestic group, between members of the same group.
