In modern society, in addition to marriage, registered by the state, there is the concept of civil marriage. This concept has no legal status and documenting, however, courts and other authorities are forced to actually recognize the existence of the institution of civil marriage.
Most people are convinced that a common-law marriage is essentially the same as legal marriage, except for the fact that no registration procedure has been completed. In fact, such an opinion is erroneous. At one time, civil marriage appeared as a substitute for church marriage. Civil marriage is a family relationship officially registered in the registry office, and what most people mean by it, in legal circles is called the actual family or cohabitation.
Church marriage
Until 1917, there was no state registration of relations in Russia, and the marriage was formalized only canonically in the church. In those days, the state and the church were inextricably linked, but after separation, changes were required, and the state left the right to regulate relations through legislation completely to itself. The only form in the USSR was civil marriage, in the Soviet way, and church in those days was safely abolished.
In the same year, a number of decrees were adopted not only on marriage, but also on its dissolution. Since 1917, civil marriage entered into legal force and became the only significant at the state level and legally legal. For the registration of marriages, departments of the civil registry office were created, where the code specified the rights and obligations of spouses, which entered into force upon marriage.
Actual marriage
That form of relationship that is not legally registered is rightly called the actual marriage or the actual marriage relationship, cohabitation. This concept is often confused with civil marriage, although they are fundamentally different from each other.
The confusion arises from the reluctance of people to call their relationship cohabitation, because many of the old habits are used to live together, raise children and lead the same life as people who registered their relationship, but only without state registration. But it must be remembered that relations not officially registered are regulated only by civil law, and not by the state.
Civil marriage is exactly what is produced in the relevant state bodies. Marriage, arranged in a church or conducting a joint life without registration, in conversations is used to be called civil, but it is correct to call this type of relationship a marriage, actual, it does not mean any rights and obligations.
