Topical Issues of Legal Regulationof Marriage with Persons Serving Sentences in Places of Deprivation of Liberty
The article analyzes features of marriage with persons sentenced to imprisonment, associated with isolation of convicts from society, their lack of opportunity to appear at the registry office or multifunctional center for the provision of state and municipal services to submit a joint application. Attention is paid to the study of problems of marriage with convicts; cases, when such marriage is unacceptable, are disclosed. The author substantiates the need to conduct educational work with convicts before registering a marriage in order to prevent the conclusion of marriages that are not aimed at creating a family and may subsequently be invalidated. The article emphasizesimportance of providing conditions to form a family in places of deprivation of liberty, whichpromotes both changes in the social status of a convicted person, and transformation of his/her behavior. It is proposed to single out marriage proceedingsfor convicts into a separate regulatory legal act or regulate them in the current legislation.