Forced marriage

A marriage that lacks the valid consent of at least one of its parties, through the intervention of third parties from the family environment (often the parents), who give themselves the power to make decisions and put pressure on the parties to bring about their marriage, thereby violating the requirements for the institution of marriage which, according to our legislation, cannot exist without consent or be entered into under conditions, terms or fads. Consent is considered to be null and void where it is not given freely and voluntarily. Such marriages are often for the purposes of carrying out other types of exploitation.