What legal obligations arise in marriage?

The rights and obligations of spouses are determined by the Family Code of Ukraine.

Duties of spouses include:

1. The duty to care for the family.

Spouses are obliged to jointly take care of building family relations between themselves and other family members based on feelings of mutual love, respect, friendship, and mutual assistance. Wife and husband are responsible to each other, to other members of the family for their behavior in it. Spouses are obliged to jointly take care of the financial support of the family.

1. The wife and husband must financially support each other

2. Mutual participation of the wife and husband in the costs of treatment

The wife and husband are mutually obliged to participate in expenses related to the illness or disability of the other spouse.