Özet:

This study includes the issue of marriage to the elderly children who hold an important place in the Ottoman family life. These children have not yet come to the cloud. Their parents are married, but the wedding will be held later. The kids are not aware of anything. Why do children’s families behave this way? There are many reasons for this: creating relativity, protecting relativity, not dividing wealth, protecting the child from uncertainty of the future, giving a kind of care to the child when there is no parent... But girls or boys don’t have to follow this future plan made by their families. For this, they need to be brought to court. The Islamic law provides the right to the child who marries at a young age to cancel this marriage through the court after having reached the cloud. For example, we have chosen Trabzon as an example. The main source of the research is XIX. In the first half of the century, the Sheriff Court forms records. These records provide us with important information about those married at a young age. There are also disputes between families in the court attitudes, but we still have the possibility to know everything. The judgments of the court were written in a short, brief and standard manner. Therefore, many of the details we are now concerned are not reflected in the records. However, we can predict that this process is quite difficult for families and children. We have been trying to reflect these facts as much as possible in our research.