marital rights
Wedded legal privileges
Marital rights are the legal entitlements that come with marriage—property sharing, inheritance, medical decision-making, tax benefits, and the like.
The phrase once euphemistically meant a spouse's claim to sexual access: He insisted on his marital rights.
This older sense has largely fallen away as legal systems recognized marital rape.
- alimonyCourt-ordered post-divorce payments
- civil unionLegal spousal alternative
- domestic partnershipNonmarital cohabiting relationship
- divorce settlementsLegal division of marital assets
- fidelityLoyalty or exactness
inheritance · consummation · mutual support · consent · child custody · companionship · family law · community property · separate property · spousal privilege · next of kin · tax benefits · family roles · intimacy · prenuptial agreement · polygamy · religious obligations · spouse
- marital financecommunity property, property division, asset division, divorce settlement, spousal support
- marriage termswedding, husband, wife, bride, groom
- women's rightssuffrage movement, women's suffrage, gender equality, feminism, women's vote
- marriage lawdivorce decree, matrimony, divorce petition, betrothal, annulment
- Islamic Marriagedowry, dower, waiting period, polygyny, guardian
- religious lawreligious law, canon law, sharia, Islamic law, sacred law
marital rightssinglehood
Unmarried state
coverture · individual rights · personal autonomy · disenfranchisement · celibacy
marital rightsmarital duties
Spouses' mutual responsibilities
marital obligations · conjugal duties · fiduciary duties · spousal obligations · household duties