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Marriage is also a contract and way to make the relationship official or public. It also make sense in that perspective to invite many people and to publish the
by igrekel 16y ago
Marriage is also a contract and way to make the relationship official or public. It also make sense in that perspective to invite many people and to publish the information to make sure everyone is aware of this commitment.
I find it always funny when unmarried couples with children are looking for a legal contract of some kind to ensure things are official between them in case something bad happens. They just see marriage as the complicated traditional thing that (they feel) is supposed to be forever. It doesn't have to be.
- barrkel 16y agoMarriage is a legal contract you often can't negotiate, and even if you can and do (pre-nup) you come off looking like an ass. As a contract, it's even subject to retroactive changes (politicians changing laws). The way incentives are set up now, there is simply no way I would enter into a marriage in most western countries. That doesn't mean I wouldn't want a means of committing to a legal contract to make things official; it's just the terms of the default contract that I disagree with.
- igrekel 16y agoThere are still laws covering unmarried couples living together with or without children. You are not out of reach of the law changing because you are not married. If you have no contract, you'll get the default anyways, its just more trouble. I don't know about where you are but there are a few different standard terms of marriage even without drafting your own custom contract. The situation is just less clear and more trouble in case things go bad if you are not married... and I don't mean divorce or separation, I also mean death, being incapacitated, stuck in a foreign country etc. And that is not even when children are involved.