Jurisprudential- Legal Challenges of the Shared Guardianship Perspective in the Marriage of Matured Virgin

Autor: reza dehghannezhad
Jazyk: perština
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: فقه و حقوق خانواده, Vol 29, Iss 81, Pp 117-142 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2538-5291
2538-5283
DOI: 10.30497/flj.2024.245790.1986
Popis: In Article 1043 of the Iranian Civil Law and according to the shared guardianship perspective, the marriage of a matured virgin girl who has reached the legal age is dependent on the permission of her father or paternal grandfather. Although this point of view has advantages, it faces jurisprudential and legal challenges both theoretically and practically in the implementation phase, and in some cases, it is incompatible with the legislative policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which is to facilitate marriage and strengthen the foundation of the family. This study has investigated these challenges by analytical-descriptive approach and concluded that the disagreements in the interpretation of the concepts of "virgin" and “equality” affect the legal status of matured virgin girl’s marriage conducted without the permission of her guardian. In case of disagreements between the daughter and father’s religious references’ views on these two issues, each of them must act according to the fatwa of their religious references, which in many cases may cause severe tensions in the family. On the other hand, not authorizing such a marriage conducted without the permission of the guardian is against caution, while in some other cases, according to the opinion of some jurists, the marriage is valid and does not need to be authorized. Besides, according to the view of some jurists, in many cases except in the case of legal term of Azl which is common in jurisprudence, the guardian's permission in marriage can be regarded as invalid. Other legal challenges of the shared guardianship view include the lack of clarity about the necessity of maturity in marriage from the legal point of view, providing the motive for committing crimes to achieve legal independence for marriage, negative effects and consequences of annulling the marriage of a virgin girl conducted without her guardian's permission, the inefficiency of issuing a marriage annulment order by the court, and the ambiguity in whether the burden of proving the justified reason for withdrawing the permission for marriage in the court is with the guardian or it is the responsibility of the daughter to prove that his opposition is unjustified. Some suggestions are then offered to address these challenges. ​
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