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With the Lithuanian government easing lockdown restrictions, the Justice Ministry has proposed to the country’s civil registry offices to gradually restore the usual procedure of marriage registration.

A Vilnius court on Monday ordered the Lithuanian capital's municipality to issue a marriage certificate to a Lithuanian woman married to a UK citizen, in which her surname would be spelled with a W.

Around 50,000 people in Lithuania have supported a European initiative to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman and family as based on marriage or descent, the Free Society Institute, a Lithuanian civil initiative group, said.

The Lithuanian parliament will debate on Thursday an amendment to the Constitution that would tie the legal definition of a family to marriage and parenthood.

The Lithuanian parliament, Seimas, rejected the bill that would have introduced the institution of partnership of opposite sex couples. The Ministry of Justice, which drafted the law, says the proposed legislation merely acknowledges the existing forms of cohabitation, while the opponents insist tha...

Hard copies of birth, death and marriage certificates would be issued only upon request, and people would not be obliged to inform about their changed status, according to a package of amendments proposed to the Seimas of Lithuania.

A non-EU citizen cannot stay in Ireland after his marriage to a Lithuanian citizen has ended, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled.

The number of nuptial agreements signed in Lithuania last year is the highest since the Register of Nuptial Agreements was launched in the country. Furthermore, agreements were concluded by persons in their 70s and 80s, the Justice Ministry said.

Based on preliminary statistical data, 131 fewer couples divorced in 2014, compared with 2013. Meanwhile, 1,600 more new marriages were recorded.

The young generation of Lithuanians prefer to put off marriage until their 30s, while their number-one priority is education and career, according to a survey.

The Government of Lithuania has rejected proposed amendments, which are now being discussed in parliament, to link family to the institution of marriage. According to the Government, such a definition would be restrictive and discriminatory.