Marriage makes it easier for your spouse to get their due when you pass. If you were never married it doesn’t matter how long you were together your estranged family can still relatively easily pick your corpse clean and leave nothing for the person you actually loved.
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etchinghillside@reddthat.com 6 months ago
Taxes. Health Insurance.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Witchfire@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s not necessary for a visa in a lot of places. Canada uses common law partnership, for example.
brewbart@feddit.org 6 months ago
Actually, marriage is one of the founding circumstances why we actually have laws. Although it is reasonable to assume that every marriage ritual in early societies had some kind of ‘blessed be this couple’ aspect, it originated out of civil necessity (structuring inheritance) before the Jesus Club took over and changed the meaning
mbtrhcs@feddit.org 6 months ago
and then it took humanity another 2000 years to move away from inheritance in favor of composition. you’d think someone would’ve realized sooner that it’s not always the right abstraction…
vzq@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That really depends on your jurisdiction. There are places where domestic partners have a different status. Mostly because of the long arm of the Catholic Church.