Lesson:
Marriage & Legal Cohabitation
What is the difference?
According to your preferences and their legal and practical possibilities, you can either
1) marry
2) enter into a legal cohabitation agreement
3) or you can live together without any legal status
This lesson will discuss each status.
1. Marriage
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Getting married in Belgium
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Rights & obligations in marriage
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End of marriage
The next slides will discuss the following topics:
You don't have to remember all the details mentioned
The idea is that you have a general view of these topics
They are many wedding traditions.
For example: Do you know why people are tossing rice at a wedding?
Tossing rice at the end of the ceremony is meant to symbolize rain, which is said to be a sign of prosperity, fertility and good fortune.
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Why is there a decrease in marriages and increase in divorces?
Causes decreasing number of marriages
- Fewer young adults
- Rising popularity of other forms of cohabitation (legal cohabitation, living alone)
- Women are more economically independent
- Less arranged marriages
- Detraditionalization
Causes increasing number of divorces
- Change in divorce legislation (shorter)
- People live longer
- Increase in same-sex marriages, also leads to more divorces
- Women are more economically independent
2. Legal Cohabitation
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Enter a legal cohabitation
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Rights & obligations in a legal cohabitation
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End of a legal cohabitation
The next slides will discuss the following topics:
You don't have to remember all the details mentioned.
The idea is that you have a general view of these topics
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Evolution of legal cohabitation since 2000
3. Living together without any legal status
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No formalities
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No rights and obligations
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No alimony
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No joint tax declaration
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No inheritence (unless there is a will)
So what do you think about the 3 status ?
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The commune where you live
Marriage in Belgium
By Eyad Elbalawi
