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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
What are you thinking about specifically? I suspect that there are fewer of them than it seems, and many domestic partnership laws are doing a lot to balance out the few that exist. What is it that bugs you?
ETA: When I mentioned them earlier, I was thinking mainly in terms of next of kin and assumptions about beneficiaries and heirs, which you can probably legally set up for non-married folks. My guess was that the family in the article probably wouldn't have though.
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well taxes etc. but um....let me explain using this example:
I meet a girl, we fall in love. I go and buy her a ring. On my way to propose, I get hit by a car. Under the new constitunial amendment that was passed, it would be illegal for her to visit me in the hospital as I lay there dying. She could only come visit during the normal friends visiting hours IF she is accompined by one of my relatives. Not to even get into the will. I could leave it all to her in the plainest terms, and she wouldn't get anything if anyone as far away as my cousin contested it.
Also, there are no real restraining orders in my state. The law does not recognize co-habitation. If a woman is being beaten by her husband, she has more ways to get protection. If a woman is being beaten by her boyfriend...no she isn't, because legally she has no boyfriend. She can get a protective order that states if he hurts again he'll face a judge. But she cannot have him removed from their home. And that's my biggest concern.