THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE AZERBAIJAN REPUBLIC

Article 17. Family and State.
The family as the foundation of society shall be under special protection of the State.

To take care of the children and their upbringing shall be the obligation of the parents. The state shall see to it that this obligation be fulfilled.

Article 32. Personal Inviolability.
Everyone shall have the right to Personal Inviolability.

Everybody shall have the right to preserve personal and family secrets. Except cases specified by Law interference into a Person's life shall not be authorized.

Collecting, preserving, using and spreading information relating to a Person's life without consent shall not be permitted.

The State shall ensure everybody's right to keep secrets of correspondence, mail, telegraph and other postal services. This right may be limited in order to prevent a crime or while investigating a criminal case exercised in accordance with procedures specified by Law.

Article 34. Right to Marriage.
Everybody shall have the right to Marriage upon reaching the age specified by Law.

Marriage shall be contracted on the basis of voluntary consent. No one shall be forced to marry.

Family and Marriage shall be under protection of the State. Mothers, fathers, children shall be protected by Law. The State shall render assistance to large families.

Husband and Wife shall have equal rights. Parents shall have both the right and the obligation to take care of Children and to raise them.

Children shall have the obligation to take care of their Parents. Able-bodied Children upon reaching the age of 18 shall have the right to support their invalid Parents.

Article 38. Right to Social Security.
Every Person shall have the right to Social Security.

It shall be the obligation of the family members in the first place to render assistance to those people in their family who need it.

Every Person shall have the right to Social Security in old age, sickness as stipulated by Law, disability, when losing work ability or the breadwinner of the family, when unemployed and in other cases specified by Law.

Minimum extent of pensions and social benefits shall be defined by Law.

The State shall create possibilities for developing charity work, voluntary social insurance, and other forms of social security and shall do all the best to promote their development.

Article 94. General Rules Determined by Milli Mejlis of the Azerbaijan Republic.
The Milli Mejlis of the Azerbaijan Republic shall determine general rules on the following issues:
14) family relations including trusteeship and guardianship.

Article 108. Maintenance of President of the Azerbaijan Republic.
The President of the Azerbaijan Republic and his family shall be maintained at the expense of the State. Security of the President of the Azerbaijan Republic and his family shall be ensured by special guard services.

Article 127. Principles of Justice.
Judges shall be autonomous, they shall be subordinate only to the Constitution and the Laws and shall be irremovable in accordance with the Law.

Judges decide the cases in an unbiased, fair way, following the legal equality of the sides, on the basis of facts and in accordance with the Law.

Direct of indirect restriction of legal procedure on somebody's part and for some reason, illegal influence, pressure, threat interference shall not be permitted.

Justice shall be administered on the basis of legal equality of citizens before Law and Court.

Trial in all the courts shall be public.
Hearing of the case behind closed doors can be authorized in case when the court assumes that open trial can lead to revealing the State, professional or commercial secret, or when the court pursues the necessity of keeping secrecy of a personal or family life.