{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:589","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Possession of Status","number":"589","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/589/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK II - FAMILY","title":"TITLE I. - BONDS OF RELATIONSHIP BY CONSANGUINITY AND BY AFFINITY.","chapter":"Chapter 6. - Proof of Marriage","section":null,"paragraph":null},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"In default of the record of civil status, marriage is proved by the possession of the status of spouse. Two persons have the possession of the status of spouses when they mutually consider and treat themselves as spouses and when they are considered and treated as spouses by their family and by society.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/589/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":162,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/162/?article=589&paragraph=p1#article-589-p1"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"The possession of the status of spouse may be proved by producing four witnesses, who have direct or indirect knowledge of the fact that marriage was concluded.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/589/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":163,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/163/?article=589&paragraph=p2#article-589-p2"}]},{"id":"p3","number":"3","text":"It may also be contested by producing four witnesses, being relatives or not of the interested parties.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/589/#p3","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":163,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/163/?article=589&paragraph=p3#article-589-p3"}]}],"caution":"This is the 2015 English-language edition attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force. Nine passages are incomplete in the available scan and are identified where they occur."}