In a real sense, there are three partners to every civil marriage two willing spouses and an approving State. 결혼은 두 당사자의 단순한 계약이 아니라 특정한 권리와 의무가 있는 법적 지위입니다. , Marriage is not a mere contract between two parties but a legal status from which certain rights and obligations arise Smith v. Smith, Mass.