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

Getting married in Belgium
Rights & obligations in marriage
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

Enter a legal cohabitation
Rights & obligations in a legal cohabitation
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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