Common law marriage and couple formation

Title to Property, Title to Marriage: The Social Foundation of Adverse Foundation and Common Law Marriage

Diagnosis and treatment of unconsummated marriage in an Iranian couple

BACKGROUND Unconsummated marriage is a problem among couples who would not be able to perform natural sexual intercourse and vaginal penetration. This disorder is more common in developing countries and sometimes couples would come up with non-technical and non-scientific methods to overcome their problem. Multi-dimensional approach and narrative exposure therapy used in this case. METHODS Th...

Law and psychiatry: a stormy marriage.

The domestic tranquility of the law and forensic psychiatry has been disturbed recently by an escalated request that psychiatric experts be excluded from court trials. Still, separation of the parties is not imminent and divorce seems unthinkable, although disharmony exists. Disquiet over psychiatric testimony is not new; numerous judicial statements can be found in case law over the years rema...

Definition in Law: Transgender Identities and Marriage

This paper looks at transgender identities and the law in the context of marriage. It particularly focuses on the role of language and definition in classifying transgendered individuals into a legal category. Two lines of cases in transgender jurisprudence are examined. The former cases decided the definition of ‘man’ and ‘woman’ on the basis of biological criteria while the latter cases held ...

Common principles of couple therapy.

The similarity in efficacy of evidence-based couple therapies suggests that it may be useful to identify those treatment principles they hold in common. Expanding on the previous description of a unified protocol for couple therapy (Christensen, 2010), this article outlines five common principles: (a) altering the couple's view of the presenting problem to be more objective, contextualized, and...