[1] The minimum legal age someone can be married is 18 for men and women, although was previously 17 for girls.
No legal status exists for couples cohabitating or those married in religious-only ceremonies, as all marriages must be registered at the state civil registry office.
[2] Marriage cannot take place between close relatives or to a person to has been declared as mentally ill or incompetent.
[1] During the 1920s, a woman would spend an average of 29 years as a married wife, though with the subsequent growth in divorces, coupled with male deaths from World War II, this had decreased to 25.6 by the late 1950s.
In Ukraine, the stereotypical view is that marriage for Ukrainian women is important and younger people generally support the idea of marrying at a young age.