ONCE YOU HAVE DECIDED TO GET MARRIED YOU WILL HAVE TO WAIT

A1+
[11:44 am] 09 November, 2007

If you have decided to attend the Registry Office you will have to
wait for a month or two. Couples are to submit an application on
wedlock and to pay 1000 drams state due.

The office registered 426 marriages and 273 divorces in Armenia in
September. There are still many couples who haven’t registered their
spousehood. Civil marriages have increased over the recent years.

In the main we have recently registered couples living together for a
long time and having children, Registry Office Head Hmayak Navasardian
informed A1+.

It is due to mention that the terms of registration can be curtailed in
case the couple has children, the spouse is ill or serves in the army.

Under the Family Code, matrimony is considered valid in case the
Registry Office has registered the act, Hmayak Navasardian says.

The church gives the couple a certificate of marriage but marriages
are ratified by the state, Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin reports.