Customary marriage (nikāḥ ‘urfī)—non-official married life of a couple—is a new phenomenon increasingly spreading throughout the Arab world. Legal and social consequences of customary marriage have led many socio-jurisprudential scholars to forbid all its varieties. The strategy has, nevertheless, failed to restrain the spread of this type of marriage. In this paper, I argue that one f...

This study aims to thoroughly implement the Prohibition of Marriage from Perspective Customary Law, Civil and Islamic Law. Second, describe application sanctions for violations marriage prohibitions according customary law, civil law. Third, analyze prevention efforts avoid infringements Marriage. The research method used is a qualitative type, with descriptive-analytic way applying literature ...

We consider why the gender division of labor is so often enforced by custom and why customary gender divisions of labor generally involve both direction and prohibition. In our formal model, agents first learn skills and then enter the marriage market. We show that wasteful behavior may emerge due to strategic incentives in specialization choice and human capital acquisition and that both probl...

The South African Law Reform Commission is currently canvassing views on a potential single marriage statute that would reconcile the several enactments regulating in Africa. This comment considers implications of proposed Bill for regulation customary marriages. It argues definition / life partnership may be under-inclusive and must expanded to included polygamous – rather than polygynous rela...

Between 1958 and 1961, China experienced one of its worst famines in history. Birth rates plummeted during these years, but recovered immediately afterwards. The famine-born cohorts were relatively scarce in the marriage and labor markets. The famine also adversely a¤ected the health of these cohorts. This paper decomposes these two e¤ects on the marital outcomes of the famine-born and adjacent...

One of the unique traditions in casting process Padang Pariaman community is "Mamak to Mamak marriage". This tradition has been passed down from generation and an obligation at traditional engagement ceremony. If this not carried out, it will affect continuation even marriage process. research empirical by looking Marriage" community. The meaning "Marriage between mamak mamak" "The bond two tri...