marriage recognition
Spousal status validation
Marriage recognition is the legal acknowledgment of a marriage by a government or jurisdiction.
The term appears most often in discussions of same-sex marriage, where couples married in one state or country may find their union unrecognized elsewhere: They moved to a state without marriage recognition for same-sex couples.
Recognition determines access to benefits, inheritance rights, and legal protections that accompany marital status.
- legal statusOne's position in law
- weddingMarriage rite and feast
- tying the knotGetting married
- shotgun weddingMarriage compelled by pregnancy
- spouseMarried partner
certificate · legitimacy · validity · same-sex · interstate · state lines · jurisdiction · license · ceremony · vows · officiant · witness · registry · common-law · rights · benefits · acknowledgment · foreign
marriage recognitionnon-recognition
Refusal to acknowledge existence
marriage annulment · marriage ban · annulment · legal dissolution · divorce
marriage, recognition, marry, married, marrying, marriageable, remarry, remarriage, unmarried