The Effect Of Marriage Bond. (By: Dabo Euclid Ammel)
INTRODUCTION The effects of marriage are the bond that arises from the valid exchange of promises and the equal rights and duties that flow from the spouses’ new status, especially concerning the education of children. The canons describes the effects of the bond of marriage in the lives of the spouse (c. 1134), the equality of the spouses (c. 1135), and the obligations and rights of the parents. MERELY ECCLESIASTICAL EFFECTS OF MARRAIGE THE MARRIAGE BOND Canon 1134 speaks of the bond that arises from a valid marriage. By this bond, the partners become husband and wife in the relationship that is marriage. The bond is such that in each partner a set of new obligations arises. The spouses, by committing themselves mutually to each other, give a new orientation to their own life. This bond is “by its nature…..perpetual exclusive,” which recalls the properties of marriage described in canon 1056. The properties in both natural and sacramental marriages are unity and indissolubility...