Cap. 339
Ο περί Τουρκικού Οικογενειακού Δικαίου (Γάμος και Διαζύγιον) Νόμος
ΚΕΦ.339
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- 1. This Law may be cited as the Turkish Family (Marriage and Divorce) Law.
- 2. In this Law, unless the context otherwise requires-
- 3. This Law shall apply to all cases in which at least one of the parties to any matter dealt with i
- 4. The betrothal is the mutual promise of a man and a woman to marry one another.
- 5.-(1) No action shall be brought claiming the specific fulfilment of a promise to marry and, subjec
- 6.-(1) A man shall not marry before he completes his eighteenth year and a woman shall not marry bef
- 7.-(1) A marriage is prohibited-
- 8. No person shall marry again unless he proves to the satisfaction of the Court that the former mar
- 9. A widow or a woman whose marriage has been declared invalid or void or has been dissolved by divo
- 10.-(1) Divorced persons cannot enter upon a new marriage before the expiration of the period contai
- 11.-(1) No marriage shall be solemnized unless the parties to the betrothal first give notice to the
- 12.-(1) Upon the receipt of the notice as hereinbefore provided, the marriage officer shall file the
- 13.-(1) Any person may, within ten days of the posting up of the notice, file with the Court an oppo
- 14.-(1) At any time not less than fifteen days, or such shorter period as the Court may in exception
- 15.-(1) No marriage between persons to whom this Law applies shall be valid and effective unless sol
- 16. Where the Court is satisfied that a marriage has been validly contracted under the Sheri Law bef
- 17. A marriage shall not be invalid or void save by a judgment of a Court declaring such marriage as
- 18.-(1) A suit for the declaration of a marriage as invalid may be instituted before a Court by one
- 19. A marriage shall be declared invalid where-
- 20. A marriage may be declared void where the party suing for such declaration satisfies the Court t
- 21. No suit for the declaration of a marriage as void shall be entertained unless instituted within
- 22. Notwithstanding that a marriage may have been declared invalid or void, the children of any such
- 23. No marriage solemnized by a marriage officer shall be declared as invalid or void-
- 24. Where a marriage has been declared invalid or void the claim of the parties to any damages, main
- 25. Upon the death of a party, any suit for the declaration of a marriage as invalid or void shall b
- 26. Either party to a marriage can sue the other party for divorce on any of the following grounds:-
- 27. No suit for divorce on the grounds set out in paragraphs (a), (b) or (c) of section 26 shall be
- 28. A person, instead of suing for divorce, may sue for judicial separation and the Court may grant
- 29. Proceedings for divorce or judicial separation shall be instituted before the Court where the cl
- 30. Notwithstanding that a party has sued for divorce and a ground of divorce has been established,
- 31. When a divorce is granted, the Court shall fix a period of not less than one year and not more t
- 32. Upon a decree of divorce, the Court may-
- 33. After a suit for divorce or judicial separation is filed, the parties may live apart.
- 34.-(1) The Court may-
- 35. If conditions are changed in consequence of the marriage, departure or death of the one party or
- 36. The solemnization of marriage creates a conjugal union between the parties who, thereby, bind th
- 37.-(1) The husband is the head of the conjugal union; he determines the place of residence and, sub
- 38. If a party to a marriage neglects his marital duty or by his conduct brings danger, dishonour or
- 39.-(1) Where the health, reputation or the work of the one of the spouses is seriously injured by l
- 40. If the husband, though able so to do, fails or neglects to make adequate provision for the wife
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- 41. The Court shall have power to set aside or vary any arrangement made under this Part of this Law
- 42. Every child born during wedlock or within three hundred and two days after the dissolution of th
- 43. If, during the period of a judicial separation, the Court is satisfied that the husband has coha
- 44. The legitimacy of a child may be contested by the husband suing therefor within one month from t
- 45.-(1) If the husband dies before the lapse of the period prescribed for contesting the legitimacy
- 46. If the husband has, directly or indirectly, recognized the legitimacy of the child, or if the pe
- 47. The parents shall, within their respective means, bear the cost of maintenance and education of
- 48. The religious education of the child shall be determined by the father or, in his absence or dea
- 49. Any notice or communication required to be given or made by a marriage officer under the provisi
- 50.-(1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2), this Law shall constitute the sole enactment to
- 51. The Governor, with the advice of the Judges of the Turkish Family Courts, may, from time to time
- 52.-(1) Every marriage, contracted before the coming into operation of this Law, shall be deemed to