marriage certificate

A minutes it's a official document that allows to certify a certain event. Marriage, on the other hand, is the link established by two people through a process of legal validity and / or a ritual.

The marriage certificate, therefore it is a certificate certifying that two individuals have established a marital relationship between them. This document is issued by the Condition through a civil registration and with the performance of a judge. With marriage, each of the parties adheres to a contract that imposes obligations on them and grants them rights.

For the fulfillment of these obligations and the exercise of the Rights, the marriage certificate is very important, since it represents a accreditation of the legal link that arises from the marriage contract. Faced with the breach of obligations, the marriage certificate is testimony of the established relationship and the existing agreement on respect for the aforementioned contract.

For the preparation of the marriage certificate, which can also be used to carry out various procedures, the contracting parties are required to present their birth certificates and their documents, a medical control and go to the civil registry with witnesses. In this way, the marriage ceremony can be carried out (which includes the judge's question to the spouses about whether they wish to marry) and the corresponding act can be completed.

The information contained in the marriage certificate includes the Names the couple, the witnesses and the intervening judge, as well as the date and the place of marriage.

On the other hand, there is the marriage book, which should not be confused with the minutes. In some countries it is also known as family certificate, and it is received by newly married couples after the celebration of the marriage, but it has no legal validity, but rather serves as a personal record to have constancy of the union, as well as of the subsequent births or, even, of the deaths of one of the parties or of the children.

The benefits of the marriage certificate are diverse, since they depend on the activities carried out by the couple from a legal point of view. One of the most common examples where you need to present this document it is a trip abroad, especially when only one of the two parties has the citizenship necessary to obtain residency in the new country.

In a case like this, it will be thanks to the person who has the citizenship of the foreign country that his partner will be able to carry out the necessary procedures to be granted residence for a limited time. The difficulty and conditions of this process They vary according to the territory, but it is not usually easy or pleasant, especially in countries where there is a large percentage of immigration, since they tend to impose many difficulties for people to give up and return to their place of origin.

To apply for a residence in a foreign country, for example, the marriage certificate does not have validity some; in fact, its usefulness does not lie in carrying out legal procedures.

Apart from the differences at the legal level, the marriage certificate usually consists of one or two sheets, with a printed part (with all the terms and phrases that must string together the information in a coherent and orderly way, as a form, as used for certain commercial contracts) and another, handwritten (with all the aforementioned data and more), while the notebook has hard covers and several pages properly prepared to record the wedding, births and deaths.