Abstract
<jats:p>"Out of love" − this is the most common answer at a divorce hearing to the question asked by the court concerning the reason why the parties seeking a divorce got married. In turn, during legal consultations preceding a divorce case, you can often hear a question that contradicts this statement: "Why did I even get married?" To trivialise a bit, it can be said that this publication asks a more far-reaching question: "What is marriage for at all (at least in the currently applicable legal form)?" The work is not an attempt to attack the family or the institution of marriage, but it analyses the possibility of reforming them and functioning in a non-statutory form, i.e. one that would not be sanctioned by the state or would not enjoy the privileges associated with it (compared to relationships without the status of marriage); in other words, it would be privatised.</jats:p>