Non Judicial Divorce as an Alternative Exit from the Marriage Market — Erman Benli

TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS V LIST OF FIGURES TABLES AND CHARTS IX LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS XI ÖZET XIII ABSTRACT XIII INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 1 ENTER INTO THE MARRIAGE MARKET 1 Entry Regulations of Marriage Market 3 1 1 Turkey 3 1 1 1 Capacity to marry 4 1 1 1 1 Capacity of judgement 4 1 1 1 2 Age 4 1 1 1 3 Consent of legal representatives for the person of limited incapacity 5 1 1 2 Marriage impediments 5 1 1 3 Form requirements 7 1 2 Germany 9 1 2 1 Capacity to marry 9 1 2 2 Impediments to marriage 10 1 2 3 Form requirements 10 2 Market Failures in the Marriage Market 11 2 1 Bilateral Monopoly 11 2 2 Externalities 13 2 3 Opportunistic Behavior 14 3 Legal Responses to Market Failures in the Marriage Market 15 3 1 Rights and Obligations of the Spouses in General 15 3 1 1 Rights of spouses 15 3 1 1 1 The right to manage the marital union 15 3 1 1 2 The right to choose shared housing family dwelling 16 3 1 1 3 The right to represent the marital union 16 3 1 1 4 The right to choose a job or profession 17 3 1 2 Obligations of spouses 18 3 1 2 1 The obligation to ensure the happiness of the marital union 18 3 1 2 2 The obligation of fidelity 18 3 1 2 3 The obligation of assistance and solidarity 18 3 1 2 4 The obligation to care educate and supervise children 19 3 1 2 5 The obligation to live together 19 3 1 2 6 The obligation to manage the household 19 3 2 Court Intervention to Marital Union 21 CHAPTER 2 EXIT FROM THE MARRIAGE MARKET 4 Divorce 29 4 1 Principles in Divorce 29 4 1 1 General 29 4 1 2 Fault principle 30 4 1 3 Principle of irretrievable breakdown of the marital union 32 4 1 4 Principle of limited will 32 4 2 Types of Divorce 34 4 2 1 Judicial divorce 34 4 2 1 1 Türkiye 34 4 2 1 1 1 Grounds for divorce 34 4 2 1 1 2 Divorce case 42 4 2 1 1 3 Legal consequences of judicial divorce 43 4 2 1 1 3 1 The legal consequences of judicial divorce for spouses 44 4 2 1 1 3 1 1 Personel consequences 44 4 2 1 1 3 1 2 Financial consequences 45 4 2 1 1 3 2 The consequences of judicial divorce for children 51 4 2 1 2 Germany 52 4 2 1 2 1 Grounds of divorce 52 4 2 1 2 2 Legal consequences of divorce 52 4 2 1 2 2 1 Pension rights adjustment or pension splitting 53 4 2 1 2 2 2 Child custody and personal relationship 56 4 2 1 2 2 3 Maintenance claim after divorce 57 4 2 1 2 2 4 Matrimonial property claims 62 4 2 1 2 2 5 Household effects and the family home 64 4 2 2 Non judicial divorce 65 CHAPTER 3 QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH AND REGULATORY IMPACT ASSESSMENT 1 Performance of Turkish and German Family Courts in Judicial Divorce Cases 71 2 Regulatory Impact Assessment 77 CONCLUSION 79 APPENDIX A 81 REFERENCES 87