In many places, mostly not in the US, if a couple has been living together for a set period, the relationship is considered a "common-law" marriage, and the couple have many of the same rights as married couples do.
On Wednesday, January 4, 2012, Eric Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > But if they were married...she could have basically told them to go f off > and would have had the legal backing to do so. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cameron Childress [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 12:11 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: what was that site... which politician fits me? > > > Maureen - I was actually thinking of you when I wrote that. I wonder how > that would have been different if marriage were not held to such a high > legal status and instead a durable power of attorney / executorship were > really the things that mattered legally? > > Can't speak to family. Family's family and usually can't be completely > explained. Definitely can't be legislated. > > -Cameron > > On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Having just spent the last three weeks dealing with the aftermath of >> the death of a partner to whom I was not married, I can attest that >> having a legal standing would have been most helpful. Even though I >> am executor of his estate and had durable power of attorney for both >> finances and health care, there was still a lot of cases where I had >> prove my standing because I wasn't the "wife". To say nothing of how >> excluded I felt by certain members of his family. >> >> It's a touchy situation - regardless of how it is handled. >> >> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > But then should marriage status even be considered when it comes to >> > government benefits? The right the issue a DNR order? Taxes? Insurance? >> > Perhaps that should be handled legally, outside of marriage. >> > Strictly within *relationship* status - able to be assigned to anyone > you wish. >> > >> > -Cameron >> >> > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:345166 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
