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Family Relations in Soviet Russia
February 4, 1925 issue

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Details of the code of laws regulating marriage, family relations, and guardianship adopted by the Commissariat of Justice and submitted for confirmation to the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR are given in the Moscow Izvestia of December 21, 1924. According to the code the marriage age for women is fixed at 16 years and for men at 18 years. It is forbidden to register a marriage between persons either of whom has been recognized as imbecile or is suffering from a psychic disease, between relatives on the direct ascending or descending line, between brothers and sisters. Married people may have a common family name if they so declare at the time of registration.

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INTERPERSONAL relations; FAMILY relations; MARITAL status; MARRIAGE age; BROTHERS & sisters; RUSSIA (Federation)
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