Marital status is understood to be the particular condition that characterizes a person in relation to their personal ties with individuals of another sex or of the same sex, with whom they will create ties that will be legally recognized even if they are not a relative or relative. direct.
Condition of a person with regard to personal ties that he has with others of the same or different sex and that are legally recognized
That is, Juan marries María and then from that moment on, the civil status of both will go from being single to married and each one will assume rights and obligations towards the other and will constitute the family institution to which they will later be added. the children that the couple beget.
The concept of marital status exists from the moment in which the human being creates the institution of marriage, but it is specifically linked to the scope that the State has as a political institution to organize and govern the establishment of ties of this type.
Types of marital status
There are different types of marital status that vary according to the type of relationships that a person maintains with others.
Among the most common we find that of singleness (those people who are not legally committed to others), that of married (those who are) and others such as: divorced (people who have broken the love or legal bond with their partners ) or widowers (those who have lost their partner due to death).
We must emphasize that the laws absolutely allow that a person who has been divorced according to another can remarry, although he will never recover the marital status of single no matter how much he is in practice, for civil law he will be a divorced person until he returns to get married.
And also the people who were widowed can remarry, happening the same, they will go from the civil status of widowers to married when they rejoin in marriage.
These are, among others, the links that determine a person's marital status. It is important to note here that these are the possible marital statuses that a person may have for the State since, for example, a person can answer that they are 'in a couple' to the question but if that couple has not been legally consummated in the offices of the State, it does not have validity when carrying out different types of procedures or being able to receive the benefits that a spouse holds in a timely manner.
And the same happens with obligations, when a person is not legally married to another, both rights and legal obligations do not exist between them.
A person's marital status can vary in many ways throughout that individual's life. This is so since the State allows and recognizes divorce as a possibility while the institutions that traditionally were in charge of establishing these links (the churches of different confessions) did not accept separation or divorce.
But on the other hand, a person can be divorced, widowed or married at different times, depending on the type of relationships that they establish with other people and the circumstances in which they live in particular.
Equal marriage: civil union between people of the same sex
In recent years, many laws around the world decided to modernize their standards and accept marriage between people of the same sex as absolutely valid.
The pressure exerted by these minorities, demanding for their rights, and also the recognition that not only does heterosexuality exist but that there are other sexual inclinations that also deserve respect and rights is that the law of equal marriage has been sanctioned in many countries, such is the case of the Argentine Republic, to cite one of the best known cases, a rule that enables civil marriages of individuals of the same sex and of course subjects them to the same rights and obligations that civil unions between men and women have as always .
Since its sanction, there have been many heterosexual couples who decided to join in marriage and a few also decided to start a family, either by adopting children or by resorting to assisted fertilization treatments.
