A Legal and Jurisprudential Analysis of the Role of Sex Change on the Quality of the Marriage Contract and its Consequences

Marriage is a type of contract that allows one's spouse to take advantage of his or her partner in a legitimate way. It is one important contract in the field of jurisprudence and law that has various consequences and functions. Establishing a family, general and specific advantage that each party takes from his or her spouse, custody of children, alimony, and dowry are among the implications of the contract. These all show the importance of the concept of jus cogens in this contract. Additionally, ethics, ethnology, and religious regulations have their own parts in the contract. One of the most important and challenging issues that has resulted in numerous legal concerns is sex change. This challenge has never been observed before and can happen to any spouse. Our main concern in this regard is regardless of the legitimacy of the sex reassignment therapy, what impact this operation has on the marriage contract itself and on the consequences resulting from this sex change, such as alimony and the custody of children. This article makes an attempt to provide answers to these questions.