On the Issue of Genesis Review of Establishing a Legal Fact by Marriage Registration

Abstract

This work includes several constituent elements of a single whole: a brief evolution of forming the fixation of marriage registration as a fact of established marital relations and its modern understanding by establishing a legal fact in procedural and legal regulation. At certain stages of marriage, the issue of historically necessary and recorded formalization of marriage bonds arose for intending spouses without clarifying the legal consequences in cases of necessity of their discovery. As civil law relations expand, it is often necessary to establish the fact of marital relations and registered marriage in the matters of social and legal guarantees, inheritance, and copyright. At best (if supporting documents are not available), the concerned person should contact the civil registry office that has a reliable record of the marriage registration at the specific time. In undisputed civil law proceedings, the fact of marriage registration can be established even if the primary civil status record or restored record is absent — when the record did not take place (is lost) and there is no confirmation of it. In this regard, the importance of following proper procedures to establish the fact of marriage registration remains unshakable in terms of historical and substantive interest.