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2. Rights and responsibilities of marriages in the United States

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   The update identified 120 new statutory provisions involving marital status, and 31 statutory provisions involving marital status repealed or amended in such a way as to eliminate marital status as a factor. The first legally-recognized same-sex marriage occurred in Minneapolis, [3] Minnesota, in 1971. [4] On June 26, 2015, in the case of ...

3. Marital status - Wikipedia

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   Civil status, or marital status, are the distinct options that describe a person's relationship with a significant other. Married , single , divorced , and widowed are examples of civil status. Civil status and marital status are terms used in forms , vital records , and other documents to ask or indicate whether a person is married or single.

4. Marriage in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Marriage in the United States is a legal, social, and religious institution. The marriage age is set by each state and territory, either by statute or the common law applies. . An individual may marry without parental consent or other authorization on reaching 18 years of age in all states except in Nebraska (where the general marriage age is 19) and Mississippi (where the general marriage age ...

5. Convention on the Issue of Multilingual Extracts from Civil ...

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   The Convention on the issue of multilingual and coded certificates and extracts from civil status records, signed in Strasbourg on 14 March 2014, is an update to the convention of 1976, to extend its provisions to documents acknowledging parentage, registered partnership and same-sex marriage, electronic transmission of documents, specify the ...

6. Civil marriage - Wikipedia

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   Countries maintaining a population registry of its residents keep track of marital status, [2] and all United Nations (UN) member states except Iran, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Tonga have signed or ratified either the United Nations Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage, and Registration of Marriages (1962) [3] or the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of ...

7. Vital statistics (government records) - Wikipedia

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   A vital statistics system is defined by the United Nations "as the total process of (a) collecting information by civil registration or enumeration on the frequency or occurrence of specified and defined vital events, as well as relevant characteristics of the events themselves and the person or persons concerned, and (b) compiling, processing, analyzing, evaluating, presenting, and ...