Having spent the last 14 months dealing with my partner's estate, I could list thousands of reasons why being married to the one you love and share a life with is a good idea. There have been so many times when the majority of the problems would have disappeared if I had only been his wife. I was executor of his estate, had full financial and medical power of attorney, and still had to deal with crap like the funeral home not wanting to let me make the arrangements and pay for the funeral, and vendors who wanted to talk to either him or "his wife". Plus, I was not eligible for his pension or his social security, because again, not his wife. Basically, it sucks to have to deal with all this financial mess and the grief at the same time. Some days, the stress of it nearly kills me.
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 7:22 AM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]>wrote: > > In this society you cannot take the government out of marriage. There > are over 1700 federal benefits for married couples. That doesn't > include inheritance rights, guardianship, etc. If you want to remove > government from marriage, you'll have to remove all of those benefits. > And there will be a howl from all the straight married couples against > that. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:362294 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
