Contracts temporary marriage With the option of repairs, this is a new legislative proposal, which seeks to offer alternatives to young generations and reduce the administrative burden of ships to high demand for divorces.
Deputy Enrique Velazquez promotes such an initiative at the Jalisco Congress, which could be voted in August.
“(It can be) two, three, four, five years, but you can put 8 or 10 years so that the couple does not want, and register this contract, and if they succeed, 90 days before the end of the contract, they say:“ We want to extend it, ”the legislator said in statements.
“You can make changes to the contract, everything you want and extend it by five more, another 10, no matter what you want,” he added.
In addition, a proposal Temporary marriages It provides for the possibility of including provisions related to children, common goods and any other aspect in which the parties agree. If they decide, they can extend the contract or terminate it without passing a long and expensive divorce process.
Velatskes said that the initiative was responsible for both the growing bride of many people for marriage and the need to facilitate the saturation of family vessels received from increasing the requirements for divorce and the time that the couples should wait to legally dissolve their union.
For example, in Jalisco, from January to July 2024, about 20 thousand divorces were registered, which is 45 percent of the burden of family ships and creates important delays.
According to the deputy, this situation affects the well of the families, especially on the stability of daughters and sons.
In the case of approval, this initiative will sit in a country where only numbers of indefinite marriage and family life or concubine exist at present.
Excessive divorce, marriage decrease
In 1985, in Jalisco, one of the largest cities in Mexico, there were six divorces for every 100 marriages. In 2023, 32 branches were consumed for 100 legal unions.
According to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi), in Mexico, the rate of marriage per thousand inhabitants fell from 7.2 in 2014 to 5.6, in 2023. In the same period, 32.6 divorces took place for every hundred marriages, a connection that increased by 13 points in a decade.
In addition, the InEGI report indicates that 36 percent of marriages that were legally dissolved in 2023 had a legal duration for less than 9 years.
With information EFE