Covenant marriage is a legally distinct kind of marriage in three states of the United States (Arizona, Arkansas, and Louisiana), in which the marrying spouses agree to obtain pre-marital counseling and accept more limited grounds for later seeking divorce (the least strict of which being that the couple lives apart from each other for two years). Louisiana became the first state to pass a covenant marriage law in 1997;[1][2] shortly afterwards, Arkansas[3] and Arizona[4] followed suit. Since its inception, very few couples in those states have married under covenant marriage law.
As of the 2015 nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage, covenant marriages now can be contracted by either opposite- or same-sex couples.
^Nichols, Joel A. (1998). "Louisiana's Covenant Marriage Law: A First Step Towards a More Robust Pluralism in Marriage and Divorce Law?". University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota). 47. Emory Law Journal. SSRN 762464.
^"Covenant Marriage" (PDF). Louisiana Laws on Community Property and Covenant Marriage. Retrieved June 26, 2022.
^"Covenant v. traditional marriage in Arkansas". Arkansas Times. July 18, 2013.
^"Covenant Marriage Information". AZCourtHelp. Arizona Bar Foundation. 2022.
Covenantmarriage is a legally distinct kind of marriage in three states of the United States (Arizona, Arkansas, and Louisiana), in which the marrying...
Look up covenant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Covenant may refer to: Covenant (religion), a formal alliance or agreement made by God with a religious...
Celestial marriage (also called the New and Everlasting Covenant of Marriage, Eternal Marriage, Temple Marriage) is a doctrine that marriage can last forever...
The Covenant of Water is a 2023 novel by physician and author Abraham Verghese. The book was published by Grove Atlantic. The novel tells the story of...
The Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) is a Radical Pietistic denomination of evangelical Christianity. The denomination has 129,015 members in 878 congregations...
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) is a multilateral treaty that commits nations to respect the civil and political rights...
first state to offer the option of a traditional marriage or a covenantmarriage. In a covenantmarriage, the couple waives their right to a "no-fault"...
Reformation Marriage as Covenant in the Reformed (and Methodist) Traditions Marriage as Commonwealth in the Anglican Tradition Marriage as Contract in...
According to the Hebrew Bible, the covenant of the pieces or covenant between the parts (Hebrew: ברית בין הבתרים, romanized: Brit Bein HaBetarim) is an...
2011-05-12. Nock, Steven L., Laura Ann Sanchez, and James D. Wright. CovenantMarriage: The Movement to Reclaim Tradition in America: Rutgers University...
(2010). "Fiery wives and icy husbands: Pre-marital counseling and covenantmarriage as buffers against effects of childhood abuse on gendered marital...
Michael L., Jewish Marriage in Antiquity, Princeton University Press, 2001, p. 189, [4] Witte, John & Ellison, Eliza; CovenantMarriage In Comparative Perspective...
Saint movement, a covenant is a promise made between God and a person or a group of people. God sets the conditions of the covenant, and as the conditions...
Marriage in the Catholic Church, also known as holy matrimony, is the "covenant by which a man and woman establish between themselves a partnership of...
in addition, which now is certainly not lawful." Augustine saw marriage as a covenant between one man and one woman, which may not be broken. It was the...
the concept of sin. McSwain's theology emphasizes that “God has a covenant, marriage-like relationship with the world he has created, not a contract relationship...
commandments which are the terms of the covenant, hence Israel is symbolized by a harlot who violates the obligations of marriage to her husband. Second, Hosea...
The New Covenant (Ancient Greek: διαθήκη καινή, romanized: diathḗkē kainḗ) is a biblical interpretation which was originally derived from a phrase which...
Natural marriage is the name given in Catholic canon law to the covenant "by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the...
28, 2007. "CovenantMarriage Act of 2001". Archived from the original on December 14, 2007. Retrieved October 8, 2007. "CovenantMarriage Act 2001 Legal...
included opposition to abortion, support for school vouchers and covenantmarriage, and tax policies that favored heterosexual families. In his thesis...
and Covenants. There were two types of polygamous marriages in the LDS Church: eternity-only and time-and-eternity. Eternity-only polygamous marriages applied...
Global Information