Politics and the Family in Iran: The Necessity of Absolute Criminalization of Not Registering a Temporary Marriage from the Perspective of Subjective and Sociological Laws

The present article seeks to examine and analyze the harms of not registering a temporary marriage; In this regard, an attempt has been made to study the course of legislative developments in this regard and to identify and study the effects of marriage registration in different legislative periods. The results of the research show that although the obligation to register a marriage event has a legislative history; However, at some point in time, the criminalization of this act was questioned by the jurists of the Guardian Council, and since this was met with criticism, the legislator finally registered the temporary marriage in some articles of the Family Protection Law (approved in 2012). In some special cases and conditions (pregnancy, agreement of the parties, condition of the contract) required. Also, the results of this article indicate that due to the many social harms and problems that occur in not registering a temporary marriage, and in order to protect the family unit, this criminalization is not enough and it is necessary for the legislator to review the relevant laws to register marriage. Make the temporary as absolutely mandatory as the permanent contract and do not restrict the obligation to register it to certain restrictions.