marriage debt
marital debt

Ali al-Kilabi, 29, a Shiite, married a Sunni woman two months ago and was happy with the award he received to pay off his marriage debts.

Spousal consent, from interpretations on marital debt, allowed spouses to more easily influence the lives of their other spouse.

This option was unavailable to widowed men as they were typically the partners that incurred and held marital debt.

"The marital debt was one area in which Gratian not only conceded but absolutely insisted that men and women enjoyed equal rights before the law.

Marital debt (commonly referred as conjugal debt) is a term that describes spouse's sexual commitment to one another.

One way to get a marriage annulment was if one spouse was impotent, in other words, if they could not fulfill the marital debt.

His 12th century work, Decretum Gratiani, became a early text example for other canon law studies and it is here where the earliest account for marital debt is found.

Each spouse is entitled to an equal share of marital property & imposes on each spouse, in relation to the other, the burden of an equal share of the marital debts.