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The bride price may range from nothing—if the woman is divorced, has a child fathered by another man, or is widely known to have had premarital relations with men—to tens of millions of Thai baht (US$300,000 or ~9,600,000 THB) for a woman of high social standing, a beauty queen, or a highly educated woman. The bride price in Thailand is ...
A marry-your-rapist law, marry-the-rapist law, or rape-marriage law is a rule of rape law in a jurisdiction under which a man who commits rape, sexual assault, statutory rape, abduction or other similar act is exonerated if he marries his female victim, or in some jurisdictions at least offers to marry her. The "marry-your-rapist" law is a ...
Dowry is a payment of cash or gifts from the bride's family to the bridegroom's family upon arranged marriage. It may include cash, jewelry, electrical appliances, furniture, bedding, crockery, utensils, car and other household items that help the newlyweds set up their home. In India, the dowry puts great financial strain on the bride's family.
On Tuesday, Metro released pictures that feature a 35-year-old councillor Ratan Lal Jat marrying a 6-year-old girl in Rajasthan, West India. The wedding is thought to have taken place on June 23 ...
A divorced or single parent filing as head of household qualifies for a tax rate lower than if you claim a filing status of single or married filing separately.
For those divorced or widowed, the right to many of ex- or late spouse's benefits, including: Social Security pension; Veteran's pensions, indemnity compensation for service-connected deaths, medical care, and nursing home care, right to burial in veterans' cemeteries, educational assistance, and housing; survivor benefits for federal employees
In January 2016, two women who had been married as children brought a court case requesting a change in the legal age of marriage to the Constitutional Court, [173] with the result that the court declared that 18 is to be the minimum age for a legal marriage for both men and women (previously the legal age had been 16 for women and 18 for men ...
Jessica Alba and Cash Warren have long bragged about their three shared children, sharing adorable updates and sweet family insights. The couple’s eldest daughter, Honor, arrived one month after ...