Polina Eremeeva

This article researches the difference between the legislative institutions of marriage agreement in the Russian Federation and in the United States of America (using Idaho family law as an example). At the beginning of the study, the historical difference of this kind of relations settlement application between future and present spouses seemed obvious. This results in different amounts of the studied institution application in these two compared legislative systems. As a result of historical method applying, as well as generalization method and empirical method of comparison, it was possible to detect not only a number of differences, but also certain distinct common features between the marriage agreements of the observed national legislative systems.