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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
and this uneasy marriage between state and religious sanction of couplehood is probably doomed over the next 100 years. If we can find better ways to handle custody disputes, inheritance and medical treatment rights, the need for the state to decide when We Two Are One is obsolete.
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That's scarry. I was thinking the same exact thing this morning. When was that next meeting?
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I don't know why we can't just do it by contract, with the default position being that in the absence of an agreement between the couple to the contrary, the spouse get's the right.