Conflict of marriage laws

The Constitutional Court has annulled a decree in the Civil Code that a woman should take her husband's surname after marriage on the grounds that it is contrary to the principle of equality.

With this decision, which will enter into force after nine months, women will not need to file a lawsuit in order to use only their celibate surnames after marriage.

Cyprus is preparing new legislation to curb the large number of sham marriages that are being conducted to help individuals obtain residency permits and potentially easier access to the European Union, the country's interior minister said Wednesday.

Abortions and same-sex marriage became legal in Northern Ireland. In the rest of the United Kingdom, termination of pregnancy has been permitted since 1967. In Northern Ireland, abortions were only allowed when the mother's life was endangered.

Marriages between two people of the same sex were also legal everywhere else in the kingdom except in Northern Ireland.

A court in South Africa ordered the government on Friday to change the law to formally recognise Muslim marriage for the first time to avoid being in breach of the constitution.

The European Court of Justice in Brussels ruled on Tuesday that member states may not obstruct the freedom of residence of a European Union citizen by refusing to grant their same-sex spouse the right of residence.

The Sofia Administrative Court dismissed the complaint of a young woman with DK initials against Sofia City's refusal to recognize her marriage to a woman in the UK. This is known by the decision of Judge Snezhanka Kyoseva from the eighth of January this year, writes Dnevnik.

The Turkish government is planning to reduce the ratio of underage as well as forced marriages in the country from five percent to one percent through an action plan regarding the issue prepared by the Family and Social Policies Ministry for 2018-2023, daily Milliyet reported on Aug. 31.

I have an objection to the new draft law.

I have an objection to authorizing the muftis to conduct marriages.

With each new move, lives of women and girls are becoming more difficult.

Women are being repelled, women are being completely ignored.

She has gone towards being viewed as a decorative item.

The civil law was accepted in 1926 in this country.

The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) "sees no problem" in a legal change allowing muftis, civil servants of the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), to register and perform marriages, MHP Deputy Group Chair Erhan Usta has said, voicing the party's support for the government's controversial draft law.

A controversial draft law allowing "muftis," religious civil servants, to register and conduct marriages will ease formal marriages and protect women in society, Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ has claimed.