Keyword: «family law»

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.

This article is devoted to the genesis and development of the institution of marriage in the first decade of the formation of the Soviet state. Special attention in the study is paid to the key normative legal acts of that period. The author characterizes the reforms carried out and their consequences for the development of the domestic branch of family law as a whole.