Marriage is a multidimensional institution. We can define marriage as emotional, legal and religious bonds in which a man and a female share emotional and physical intimacy, roles, expectations and resources. In today's United States, we can define marriage as a social, economic and legal contract between a man and a woman. Marriage is a social system. Marriage is not an intimate, confidential system. In marriage, a woman and male are together as a couple in public places. It is a marriage function, which is a public function with at least two witnesses and is performed by an agent of the state. The couple is considered socially "related to each other". Marriage changes the way married couples are considered and the way they work in society. One of the social contracts of marriage is that it is aconus - it excludes all other sexual relations. Married people who publicly behave like a single are bringing difficulty in their marriage.
Marriage is an economic system. Marriage creates a unit of economic consumption and includes some part of economic resources. Couples who are not ready to share everything will require to form a legal agreement (marriage-pre-agreement) except for the joint ownership of some assets. Couples can use many different methods to manage income and expenditure. Even though all methods are not according to the Bible, but all have been asked to share some part of the resources. Marriage is a legal contract.
Since there is an economic aspect of marriage, it is the vested selfishness of every state of who, when and under what circumstances people can get married, laws should be made for this. In each marriage, there is a state representative who performs the ceremony and confirms the validity of the union. When the ministers organize marriage, they are working as representatives of both the church and the state. And they declare marriage as holy according to God and valid according to the kingdom. Each state develops its own marriage law, such as the age of consent, the requirements of the medical examination, the requirements for the marriage license and how the general-law marriage is defined. Similarly, each state develops laws to regulate the closing of marriage, such as developing processes for the division of assets and custody of children.
