MARRIAGE

- It is the foundation of the family, an inviolable social institutions. This is also serves as the
continuation of the cultural mechanism of the family.

- Sex and sexual attraction is least consideration, but marriage makes a sexual intercourse
legitimate.

Family Code of the Philippines to Marriage

- A special contract of permanent union between a man and a woman entered into in accordance
with the law for the establishment of conjugal and family life.

- As a contract, it applies to only a man and a woman, it is permanent; the law prescribed penal
and civic sanctions.

- As a status, it is created between parties.

FORMS OF MARRIAGE

 Monogamy - most common and universal forms of marriage. It is involve the union of a man
and a woman.

 Polygamy - the plural union where an individual is married to several individuals at the same
time. There are three types: polygyny, polyandry and group marriage.

 Adoptive - it is transferred from father to son, many wealthy family would want to preserve
their surnames.

 Fictive - It is a union between two women, one old and one young.

 Second marriage – sororate (sister-in-law) or levirate marriage (brother-in-law).

FORMAL REQUISITES FOR MARRIAGE

Philippines

 Authority of the solemnizing officer (judge/priest)

 A valid marriage license (good for 120 days only)

- The legal capacity of the contracting parties who must be a male and a female, and the consent
freely given by the couple in the presence of the solemnizing officer.

- The minimum age for marriage is 18 years but parental consent is necessary for those below 21
years.

- Presently, some changes in the requisites for marriage has made: a) no license is necessary if
the couple has lived as husband and wife for at least and there is no legal impediment to their
marriage.
PRINCIPLES OF MATE SELECTION

 Endogamy

- It dictates that one should marry within one’s clan or ethnic group.

 Exogamy

- The one that marries outside one’s clan or ethnic group.

 Levirate

- The widows marries the brothers or nearest kin of the deceased husband.

 Sororate

- The widower marries the sister or the nearest kin of the deceased wife.