Qualifying Characteristics of Common Law Marriage
Abstract: This article focuses on the qualifying characteristics of a common law marriage, as an informal community of a man and a woman, which has to fulfi ll certain prescribed conditions in order to produce certain legal actions. Therefore, we start from the hypothesis that the qualifying characteristics of common law marriage can be determined on the basis of the legal defi nition of common law marriage, which is conditioned by social, historical and legal perceptions of common law marriage. The aim of this article is to determine the qualifying characteristics of common law marriage in a comparative legal context, their critical analysis and determination of qualifying characteristics and defi nition of common law marriage in positive law and the future Family Law in Republika Srpska. This gives importance and relevance to this paper. The comparative legal context includes both the countries of the former SFRY and some European countries.
Key words: qualifying characteristics, common law marriage, marriage, elements of common law marriage, family, inheritance.
Kvalifi kacione karakteristike braka u common law
Rezime: Ovaj članak se fokusira na kvalifi kacione karakteristike vanbračne zajednice, kao neformalne zajednice muškarca i žene, koja mora da ispuni određene propisane uslove da bi proizvela određene pravne radnje. Stoga polazimo od hipoteze da se kvalifi kacione karakteriske vanbračne zaednice mogu utvrditi na osnovu pravne defi nicije vanbračne zajednice, što je uslovljeno društvenim, istorijskim i pravnim shvatanjima vanbračne zajednice. Cilj ovog članka je utvrđivanje kvalifi kacionih karakteristika vanbračne zajednice u uporednopravnom kontekstu, njihova kritička analiza i utvrđivanje kvalifi kacionih karakteristika i defi nicija vanbračne zajednice u pozitivnom pravu i buduć em Porodičnom pravu u Republici Srpskoj. Ovo daje važnost i relevantnost ovom radu. Uporednopravni kontekst obuhvata kako zemlje bivše SFRJ, tako i neke evropske zemlje.
Ključne reči: kvalifi kacione karakteristike,common law brak, brak, elementi vanbračnog braka, porodica, nasleđe.