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A civil marriage is a marriage performed, recorded, and recognized by a government official. [1] Such a marriage may be performed by a religious body and recognized by the state, or it may be entirely secular .
Santiago Vinces and Fernando Saltos on their way to the civil registry office in Guayaquil, as part of the Matrimonio Civil Igualitario campaign. On 5 August 2013, LGBT groups launched a nationwide campaign under the name Matrimonio Civil Igualitario ("Equal Civil Marriage"), seeking to legalize same-sex marriage in Ecuador. [42]
1900 – All states now grant married women the right to own property in their own name. 1904 – LDS Church President Joseph F. Smith issues the 1904 "Second Manifesto", which stated that the church was no longer sanctioning plural (polygamous) marriages and would excommunicate anyone who participates in future polygamy.
Before this, Chile recognized same-sex couples through civil unions, known in Spanish as acuerdo de unión civil (AUC), which were available to all couples regardless of sexual orientation and provided some, but not all, of the rights of marriage. The first civil unions were registered on 22 October 2015.
The legislation guaranteed several legal rights, benefits and obligations to same-sex couples in the form of civil unions. It did not legalize adoption and mandated that civil unions be performed with a civil law notary. [5] [6] On 31 October 2013, the Congress of Jalisco approved the bill in a 20–15 vote, [3] with one abstention and three ...
Civil marriages are performed by notaries and judges. Every marriage performed in Colombia has to be registered with the National Civil Registry . According to the Superintendence of Notaries and Registrations, notaries performed 138 same-sex marriages in 2016, 341 in 2017 and 316 in 2018, [ 64 ] with most occurring in Antioquia , Cundinamarca ...
Legislators reaffirmed state law which at the time read, "El matrimonio es un contrato civil, por el cual un sólo hombre y una sola mujer, se unen en sociedad para perpetuar la especie y ayudarse en la lucha por la existencia." ("Marriage is a civil contract, in which one man and one woman are united by society to perpetuate the species and ...
Prior to this date, the civil registry had already begun processing marriage applications from same-sex couples and issuing marriage licenses. A couple applied to marry the same day as the ruling was handed down, and wed shortly thereafter. [31] On 6 April 2019, a same-sex couple, together for 11 years, wed in a Masonic ceremony in ...