Concubinage in Present-Day Mexico - Softcover

Sordo, María Del Mar Herrerías

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0967454107 ISBN 13: 9780967454108

Publisher: Burke Publishing, 1999

Synopsis

The aurhor, Mara Del Mar Herreras Sordo, and the translator, Beatrice Berler, interviewed the concubines in the Fall of 1998. The short histories relate the geneses of three of the pairings. They were very cooperative and anxious to share their stories with us and answered all of our questions. Our treatment of a sometimes complex issue verges on the simplistic. The texts are simple and we have tried to keep them as faithful to the answers as possible. No one in authority knows how many couples are living in concubinage in Mexico; however, concubinage is an actual judicial fact, not an institution.

"Our laws consider concubinage an isolated legal act regulating a few of its lawful results such as the need for food, clothing and the successor rights. Nevertheless, I consider that they ought to recognize other problems the laws ignore -- for example, regular conflicts that are always present in the common run of pairings living in this environment."

About this edition

• Publisher: Burke Publishing
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0967454107
• ISBN 13: 9780967454108
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 106