{"id":15867,"date":"2011-11-08T11:11:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T09:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=15867"},"modified":"2011-11-08T11:11:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T09:11:43","slug":"on-cyprus-marriage-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/08\/on-cyprus-marriage-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"On Cyprus’ marriage laws"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Being happily married now, civil marriages and other forms of living together aren’t high on my interest list, but I still found this Cyprus Mail article<\/a> interesting.<\/p>\n

Cyprus law does not provide for any other form of recognised cohabitation beyond marriage.<\/p>\n

The matter came to the fore after authorities denied a 93-year-old woman a widow\u2019s pension because she had never married her partner of 67 years who was also the father of her eight children. The woman had applied for a widow\u2019s pension after her spouse \u2013 who had been making his social insurance contributions as long as he was alive – died in February last year.<\/p>\n

The couple had been living together since 1943 and had eight children. They were not married because they were relatives by marriage \u2013 her brother married his sister \u2013 and were banned from doing so at the time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This makes me think of the laws in historic perspective. Each and every law currently in existence has a history. Some time ago, someone somewhere had a need for a law being introduced or changed. There was a human being, a life, and likely more than one that would be affected by the law. How often do we really look back at and consider that? <\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Being happily married now, civil marriages and other forms of living together aren’t high on my interest list, but I still found this Cyprus Mail article interesting. Cyprus law does not provide for any other form of recognised cohabitation beyond marriage. The matter came to the fore after authorities denied a 93-year-old woman a widow\u2019s … Continue reading On Cyprus’ marriage laws<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,22],"tags":[429,577,1128,2961],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-15867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-cyprus","tag-culture","tag-law","tag-lifestyle","tag-marriage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7648,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/07\/cyprus-theatre\/","url_meta":{"origin":15867,"position":0},"title":"Cyprus Theatre","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 7, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Svetka and Yannis invited us to see a performance given by some dancing group in the CTO center in Germasoia village. 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