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Family law
Law that deals with family-related issues such as spousal abuse, legitimacy, adoption, surrogacy, child abuse, and child abduction.
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polyandry
Legal services; Family law
The marriage of one wife to several husbands. Fraternal polyandry is a variant in which the husbands are brothers.
polygyny
Legal services; Family law
The marriage of one husband with several wives, is called as polygyny.
nikah mutah
Legal services; Family law
A fixed term marriage in Shia Islam, is termed as Nikah Mutah.
open marriage
Legal services; Family law
A marriage in which rhe partners agree that each is free to engage in extramarital relationship, without regarding this as infidelity.
placage
Legal services; Family law
A recognized extralegal system in which white French and Spanish and later Creole men entered into the equivalent of common-law marriages with women of African, Indian, and Creole descent.
serial monogamy
Legal services; Family law
A marriage to one spouse at a time is called as serial monogamy.
shim-pua marriage
Legal services; Family law
A Taiwanese tradition of arranged marriage, in which poor family would sell a young daughter to a richer family for labour.
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