The site country by country

Around eight hundred pages of this site are about one particular country. They sit across every section; these pages gather them, one country at a time.

The site is organised by topic: a general page says what is true everywhere, and a country page says what changes. That is the right way to write it, but not always the right way to search it — if you live in Ireland or are marrying a Canadian, you want everything about that country at once.

Each page below brings together, for one country, every page of the site that concerns it: marriage and divorce, parentage and inheritance, contraception and abortion, infections, online dating and the law that applies to what you post.

Compare two countries

Pick a topic and two countries: the table is built from the same country files as the rest of the site, side by side.

True or false: couple law from one country to the next

Ten statements on cohabitation, divorce, same-sex marriage and spouse visas. Each correction links to the country page concerned.

The countries covered

This list belongs to the English version of the site: the English-speaking countries and a few common countries of emigration. The French-speaking countries — France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Quebec, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Senegal, Madagascar and others — have their pages in the French version, country by country; the German-speaking countries — Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, German-speaking Belgium, South Tyrol, Namibia — in the German version. The pages there are built the same way.

How these pages are built

They contain no text of their own: they are lists, assembled automatically from the existing pages. Whenever a country page is created or moved, the corresponding list follows. That is also why they are not offered to search engines: a list of links teaches nothing to someone landing on it by chance. It is for you, once you are on the site.

If your country is missing

The site covers French-, English- and German-speaking countries, plus a few common countries of emigration. For the others, the general pages say what is true everywhere, and the comparator puts two covered countries side by side. If a country is missing, write to us: that is the kind of request that gets a series added.

Page checked in September 2026. The instruments cited can change: if in doubt, confirm with the official source given.

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