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Can't you sign power of attorney papers, explicitly list people in a will, and name guardians for children? It sounds like it's just not implicit or automatic (

• dragonwriter 3y ago
  > Can't you sign power of attorney papers, explicitly list people in a will, and name guardians for children? It sounds like it's just not implicit or automatic. Is that correct or am I off base? There are some things that aren't replicable easily, some things that are more difficult to deal with because institutions are more used to dealing with marriage, there are recognition issues and anticipation issues because both the things covered and the legal forms necessary to acheive them differ by jurisdiction, and may not have the degree of mutual recognition marriage does, and there are innmost jurisdictions a very large number of things that this applies to so it complex, potentially costly, and leave lots of room for error to get everything yoj can do by contract. And there are things you still can't duplicate at all because they are, e.g., benefits conditioned directly on marriage by the state or a third party, so contract between the parties outside of marriage has no effect on them.
• spondylosaurus 3y ago
  Technically yes, but even those workarounds are hard-won rights and not always honored: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_re_Guardianship_of_Kowalski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_re_Guardianship_of_Kowalski
• klyrs 3y ago
  > Is that correct or am I off base? Very off base. Requiring gay couples to jump through hurdles to access the rights and privileges afforded to straight couples is not equality.