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A last-minute decision to be married before a baby is born. Being married can simplify other bureaucracy if the mother dies or is incapacitated.
by Symbiote 3y ago
A last-minute decision to be married before a baby is born. Being married can simplify other bureaucracy if the mother dies or is incapacitated.
- dpeckett 3y agoPeople often forget marriage is also a legal contract (in Germany it simplifies so many things, eg. health insurance, joint income tax filings, etc). I think most immigrants who get married in Germany are doing it for legal reasons primarily.
- dark-star 3y agoA baby takes 9 months to develop, if you notice 2 days before birth that you should be married so that you don't have to adopt (or whatever other reason), that's just very poor planning on the parents' side. And in actual emergencies, these processes can be accelerated, like every other buerocratic process in Germany