POLYGAMOUS MARRIAGE REVIEW FROM LAW NUMBER 1 OF 1974 CONCERNING MARRIAGE

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 ...

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

Marriage penalties , marriage , and cohabitation

I examine the effect of marriage penalties in the US income tax system on marital status. I construct a simulated instrument that exploits variation in the tax code over time and between US states to deal with potential endogeneity between the marriage penalty a couple faces and their marital status. I find that a $1000 increase in the marriage penalty faced reduces the probability of marriage ...

Marriage Contracts and the Law-and-Economics of Marriage: an Austrian Perspective

Marriages and firms share many characteristics in common. Both institutions deal with a set of promises between two parties and therefore need contracts to encourage individual parties to stand by their promises and commitments. Despite these similarities, in most countries marriage laws are statutory laws that have little in common with commercial contract laws. We present the Chicago and neoc...