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Re:Millennials are still not getting married by seanca on Friday October 14, 2016 @03:49PM (#12710598)
Watched my parents split. Currently watching older colleagues going through messy financial divorces or staying with someone to avoid said messy financial divorce.

Until outrageous divorce laws are fixed, I'll opt out of signing that trainwreck of a contract.

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Re:Millennials are still not getting married by jomamaxx on Friday October 14, 2016 @03:57PM (#12710655)
In most places, living with someone is basically the same thing as 'marriage' from a legal perspective.

And yes, the laws are often unfair.

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Re:Millennials are still not getting married by gnicholas on Friday October 14, 2016 @04:10PM (#12710734)
> In most places, living with someone is basically the same thing as 'marriage' from a legal perspective.

If this is a reference to common law marriage, it's not actually that widespread anymore (only in 10 states in the US). It also typically requires the couple "hold themselves out as married" in the community, which makes the bar substantially higher than just living together for a long time.

If this isn't a reference to common law marriage, I'm not sure what it is—feel free to enlighten me!

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Re:Millennials are still not getting married by jomamaxx on Friday October 14, 2016 @04:17PM (#12710765)
It is, and you're probably right.

By 'places' I was referring to the 'Western World' :).

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Re:Millennials are still not getting married by danieltillett on Friday October 14, 2016 @04:34PM (#12710894)
In many cases it is not the laws as such, but the judge that is the problem.
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