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Marriage/union type list

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Marriage/union type is used to document the type of partnership formed between two people.  It can include such straightforward relationships as... more
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Marriage A medieval woodcut of a marriage from Holland Marriage
Marriage is a personal union of individuals. This union may also be called matrimony, while the ceremony that marks its beginning is usually called a wedding and the married status created is sometimes called wedlock. Marriage is an institution in...
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Domestic partnership    
A domestic partnership is a legal or personal relationship between two individuals who live together and share a common domestic life but are neither joined by a traditional marriage nor a civil union. However, in some jurisdictions, such as...
Civil union  
A civil union is a legally recognized union similar to marriage. Beginning with Denmark in 1989, civil unions under one name or another have been established by law in many developed countries in order to provide same-sex couples with right,...
Handfasting An example of a handfasting knot where each wedding guest has tied a ribbon around the clasped hands of the couple  
Handfasting is today a Neopagan ceremony of (temporary or permanent) betrothal or wedding. The term is derived from the verb to handfast, used in Middle to Early Modern English for the making of a contract of marriage. The term is originally a...
Elopement Elopement-A Hasty Descent  
To elope, most literally, merely means to run away. More specifically, elopement is often used to refer to a marriage conducted in sudden and secretive fashion, usually involving hurried flight away from one's place of residence. In England, a...
Common-law marriage    
Common-law marriage (or common law marriage), sometimes called de facto marriage, informal marriage or marriage by habit and repute, is a form of interpersonal status which is legally recognized in some jurisdictions as a marriage even though no...
Registered partnership    
Registered partnership is one of several terms synonymous with a civil union or civil partnership similar to marriage, typically created in order to provide same-sex couples the legal and social benefits of traditional marriage and thus could be...
Putative marriage    
A putative marriage is an apparently valid marriage, entered into in good faith on the part of at least one of the partners, but that is legally invalid due to a technical impediment, such as a preexistent marriage on the part of one of the partners...
Engagement William-Adolphe Bouguereau The Proposal Quotation Subject
An engagement is a promise to marry, and also refers to the time between proposal and marriage. During this period, a couple is said to be affianced, engaged to be married, or simply engaged. The concept of an engagement period may have begun in...
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