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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Marriages of convenience

Marriages of convenience

  • High mobility marriages

Incidence

A Belgian report investigated marriages in which foreigners marry Belgians to acquire residency rights. It found that Antwerp courts annulled 114 marriages of convenience during the period 1990 to 1997. Liege courts annulled 59 cases during the same period.

Broader

Lessening regard for the sanctity of marriage
Yet to rate

Aggravates

Illegal marriage
Presentable

Aggravated by

Marriage markets
Unpresentable

Related

Cohabitation
Excellent
Children of convenience
Presentable
Arranged marriage
Presentable

Strategy

Permitting free-choice marriage
Yet to rate

Value

Mobility
Yet to rate
Inconvenience
Yet to rate
High-spiritedness
Yet to rate
High-mindedness
Yet to rate
Convenience
Yet to rate

Reference

Bockoven, Georgia: Marriage of Convenience

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
Content quality
Unpresentable
 Unpresentable
Language
English
1A4N
U3035
DOCID
13130350
D7NID
139502
Editing link
Official link
https://encyclopedia.uia.org/problem/marriages-convenience
Last update
Oct 4, 2020