As the foundation of a family, marriage has been attributed to many definitions. Thus, according to popular opinion, marriages are the communions that are taken from Heaven. Goethe believed that marriage was the beginning and the summit of all culture, while Proudhon considered it the sacred face of justice and the mystery of universal harmony.

Dictionaries usually define marriage as the free and consented union between a man and a woman, a union that is carried out in accordance with the law and whose purpose is to give rise to the foundation of a new family. Most journalists and lawyers also accept this definition as the most accurate. Some jurists also introduce their own approaches in the definition of this concept, these approaches have more or less to do with their religion. Ronasc, for example, considered that the legal act by which a man and a woman establish a bond between them is a union that the law imposes and that they can break whenever they want. In legal terminology, the word “marriage” is used in the following situations.

First of all, it is used to define a legal document that is signed by the future spouses in accordance with the law. In addition, it is used to define the celebration of the marriage itself, which means that it refers to the official ceremony within which the document is signed. Then, a status is defined, a status that is included in the family code and that refers to a legal institution, being therefore a set of rules that determine and govern this concept.

Seen from a general point of view, the act of marriage is very similar to the pact, being also a bilateral legal act, but it also encompasses the conception that everyone has the right to marry whenever and with whomever they want. married to. In addition, once they marry, the two spouses are equal in rights and in everything else, the marriage canceling all their privileges except those that have to do with their personal property, which are not divided in case of divorce. Marriage is a civil act, as it can only be performed by a local authority. Also, this is supposed to be an agreement that is signed for life, but it seems that there are more and more cases where it doesn’t happen because the number of divorces is continuously increasing. Husband and wife are supposed to stay together for better or worse, but more and more people seem to forget these words or simply don’t value them, a divorce being as significant an event as marriage itself.

Of course, everyone has the right to marry, just as everyone has the right to divorce if they feel there is nothing more they can do to save their marriage. However, marriage is supposed to lay the foundation for a new family, while divorce only separates a family that should never be separated.