
The Act of July 24, 1998, amending the Family and Guardianship Code, significantly affected the institution of marriage. The possibility for a religious marriage to obtain civil law effects is a social expected change. The article will recall the most important legal dilemmas in the period after the introduction of the institution of "concordat marriage". The article also presents the solution of those dilemmas by interpretation of the law or as a result of the legislator's intervention.