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The legal minimum age for marriage in Brunei is 14 years and seven months with parental and participant consent, unless religious or custom laws set a higher minimum age. The Islamic Family Act sets the minimum age at 16 for Muslim girls and 18 for Muslim men, and it is an offense to force someone to marry against their will.
When the move to Sharia law was announced, the United Nations urged Brunei to review its laws in this area, which has been described by media outlets as "medieval", and "uncivilized". [8] [10] Their implementation was delayed until April 2019, after the Sultan declared that these laws should be regarded as "special guidance" from God. [11]
According to Lebanese Marital Law, individuals aged between 15 (14 in the case of females with judicial consent) and 18, may marry in exceptional cases (when factoring in areas of the law, such as and including both parental and judicial consent), and in the cases of females - marriage is allowed outright, as an unrestricted right, from the age ...
Brunei's Southeast Asian neighbors, some of whom have laws banning sex between men, were silent. But LGBTQ citizens of other nearby Muslim-majority countries were concerned about the broad penalties.
In Canada, both bigamy (article 290 of the Criminal code of Canada) [147]) and de facto polygamy (article 293 of the Criminal Code) [148] are illegal, but there are provisions in the property law of at least the Canadian province of Saskatchewan that consider the possibility of de facto multiple marriage-like situations (e.g. if an already ...
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.
Laws that affect LGBT people include, but are not limited to, the following: laws concerning the recognition of same-sex relationships, including same-sex marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships; laws concerning same-sex parenting, including same-sex adoption; anti-discrimination laws in employment, housing, education, public ...
Customary law holds that sex within marriage is consensual. [62] Brazil: Explicitly criminalised [64] Since 2005, [law 23] the law criminalises rape of men or women, including spousal rape. [65] (Articles 213 & 226 of the Criminal Code) [law 24] Brunei: Explicitly excluded [66]