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Same-sex marriage has been legal in Chile since 10 March 2022. [1] [2] The path to legalization began in June 2021 when President Sebastián Piñera announced his administration's intention to sponsor a bill for this cause. [3] [4] The Chilean Senate passed the legislation on 21 July 2021, followed by the Chamber of Deputies on 23 November 2021.
Campaign demanding legal recognition of same-sex marriage in Chile. Main article: Same-sex marriage in Chile In March 2015, the Ministry of Foreign affairs issued a circular that recognizes same-sex civil unions and equal marriages performed abroad for residency matters. [ 20 ]
SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Chile's Congress passed a law to legalize same-sex marriage on Tuesday, in a milestone for the conservative South American nation after a decade-long legal battle and with the ...
The Civil Code of the Republic of Chile is the work of the Chilean-Venezuelan jurist and legislator Andrés Bello. After several years of individual work (though officially presented as the work of multiple Congress commissions), Congress passed the Civil Code into law on 14 December 1855, and came into force on 1 January 1857.
As nationality was deemed a personal right, a change in nationality of one spouse, or the state of marriage, did not impact the other spouse under Chilean law, [25] unless by marriage to a foreigner another nationality was automatically acquired. If marriage bestowed another nationality, Chilean nationality automatically was canceled. [26]
However, this is true only with regard to the law of obligations and the law of things (except for principle of abstraction), while it is not true at all in the matters of family and successions. The indisputable main source of the Civil Code is the Siete Partidas (Seven-Part Code) of King Alfonso X, perhaps the pinnacle of Spanish ius commune.
Marriage law is the body of legal specifications and requirements and other laws that regulate the initiation, continuation, and validity of marriages, an aspect of family law, that determine the validity of a marriage, and which vary considerably among countries in terms of what can and cannot be legally recognized by the state.
[citation needed] The marriage law sets the age of marital consent at 15 years for girls and 17 years for boys, provided that parents of the parties agree to the marriage. Parental permission to marry is required up to the age of 21. The law also mandates the presence of a civil registry official to register all marriages. [71]