civil status
Legal relationship classification
Civil status is a person's legal standing regarding marriage and family relationships.
The main categories are single, married, divorced, widowed, and sometimes separated or in a domestic partnership.
Government forms and legal documents routinely ask for civil status: Please indicate your civil status.
The term appears more in formal and international contexts than in casual American speech, where "marital status" is more common.
- divorcedLegally ended marriage
- marriedJoined in matrimony
- separatedPut or kept apart
- widowedHaving lost one's spouse
- annulledDeclared legally void
spouse · single · birth certificate · marriage certificate · domestic partnership · stateless · citizen · born out of wedlock · divorce decree · name change · personal details · common law · legitimacy · dual citizenship · guardian · custody rights · family court · naturalized
- legal statuslegal capacity, personhood, legal entity, legal identity, legal standing
- Roman Freedomcitizenship, manumission, freedmen, freeborn, emancipation
- Quebec lawnotaries, notary, advocates, obligations, servitudes
- Napoleonic codescommercial code, penal code, criminal procedure, codification, legal reform
- demographicspopulation density, population growth, age distribution, population, gender ratio
- identity documentsID card, identity card, birth certificate, identity papers, national ID
civil statusoccupation
One's regular paid work
employment status · profession · job title · career · educational attainment
civil statuspersonal identity
One's defining characteristics
private life · social identity · inner self · de facto relationship
civil statuspersonal identity
One's defining characteristics
self-identification · lifestyle · personality · character · social standing
civil, status, civility, civilian, civilize, civilized, civilization, civics, civic