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- Path: sparky!uunet!UB.com!daver!sgiblab!wetware!diana
- From: diana@wetware.com (CatWoman )
- Subject: Re: Getting Married: Grounds for Insanity Plea?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.144208.16296@wetware.com>
- Keywords: Off Your Rocker
- Sender: news@wetware.com (Usenet News Account)
- Organization: Castle WetWare MouseCatcher
- References: <stone.721680394@cwis>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 14:42:08 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- stone@cwis.unomaha.edu (Travis Stone) writes:
-
- ] Can anyone give me (a minimum) of three good, logical reasons
- ] why people should marry?
-
- This is, of course, my opinion only...
-
- The one CURRENT "good" reason for getting married is to have
- that piece of paper that says that you are entitled to speak
- for someone else if something should happen to them. In case
- of accident or illness, you are entitled to have first say in
- the type of treatment, and the disposition of the assets of
- the person. Until we have in place legal "partnership agreements"
- that will give those legal rights to someone who is NOT a
- "spouse", then that is one very good reason.
-
- Second - tax breaks. Quite often married people can file
- in a lower tax bracket.
-
- Third - Benefits. A spouse can inherit financial assets with
- less hassle and less taxing than a non-spousal beneficiary.
-
- Fourth - If you are planning on having children together,
- there is still some social status for the children when the
- parents are married. And again - if legal, medical or other
- decisions are needed for the children, married parents get an
- equal say, whereas unmarried ones CAN have hassles. Not that
- married parents do not, mind you.
-
- Note that all of these are LEGAL reasons. For myself, I would
- prefer a private arrangement of trust, with a legal agreement
- for the legal procedings. I see absolutely NO reason, IMMHO,
- why I cannot have one person act for me as my bed-partner,
- lover, etc., and another person act as my legal executor and
- whatnot. I have separate people now for insurance, legal,
- and financial advice - I rather think the same should be
- true of my PERSON...
-
- Diana
-