7 Consequence of Marriage — Rights and Duties of Husband and Wife

1. The equality principle (Article 38(6)): "Both the spouses shall have equal rights in property and family affairs" — the constitutional text the Code 2074 implements; 2. Personal duties: cohabitation and consortium (the mutual duty of living together — subject to the protection orders' exceptions); mutual fidelity; mutual maintenance (the duty to maintain according to means — enforceable by the maintenance suit); care in illness-and-age; the domestic-violence floor (Domestic Violence Act 2066 — Criminal Law-II's Unit 2); 3. Property consequences: the joint-family entry and the equal share (the wife's coparcenary position — Unit 6); the equal division on divorce (Unit 3); the spousal succession (the widow's/widower's inheritance — Unit 6); 4. Family-affairs standing: the equal parental authority (Unit 4); the family-decision participation (the constitution's "family affairs" command — the Code's implementation in guardianship-and-custody consent); 5. The consequences' breach-remedies: maintenance suits, separate-residence orders, divorce (Unit 3), criminal complaints (the violence-and-bigamy offences).