Computer firms have even cashed in by developing software allowing suspicious spouses to electronically spy on someone's online activities.

It allows spouses who do not work outside the home to save for retirement through an IRA.

Owner organizations want the law changed to restrict succession rights drastically, perhaps by allowing only spouses to "inherit the apartment."

Income splitting is the default behaviour in countries which allow or require spouses to file a joint tax return.

Another provision of the new law allows certain surviving spouses to claim the deferral provision for the first time.

In the United States, several states allow spouses to divorce if they are no longer willing to live with one another.

In 1981, Congress showed some compassion and passed a law allowing spouses to leave each other their entire estates free from the transfer tax.

Another retained provision allows battered immigrant spouses to receive public assistance.

They also want to allow spouses and children of soldiers killed in the line of duty to apply for citizenship immediately.

His bill would allow parents and spouses of slain soldiers to apply immediately for citizenship.