Re:Divorce and Occupation
by nl on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @07:21PM
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I guess my question is, why are we putting ourselves in the corner with a contract just to force ourselves to stick around a little bit longer, since you could do that anyways without that same contract?
So.. don't?
In most Western societies there is some degree of protection for de-facto relationships. You can always add extra protections with some form of extra legal agreement.
There's a generalized form of this called "marriage". Like most forms of legal structure that have evolved over the years (eg, land title! Employment law, etc) it has its problems but it's mostly sorta ok for most people.
But if you want to try to optimize that I don't think anyone will stop you.
Edit: There are of course some specific things (rights to children, default rights in case of a partner's death etc) which do require a marriage. You maybe able to replicate some of these things with a legal contract, but it will be a lot of work and no in anyway efficient.
So.. don't?
In most Western societies there is some degree of protection for de-facto relationships. You can always add extra protections with some form of extra legal agreement.
There's a generalized form of this called "marriage". Like most forms of legal structure that have evolved over the years (eg, land title! Employment law, etc) it has its problems but it's mostly sorta ok for most people.
But if you want to try to optimize that I don't think anyone will stop you.
Edit: There are of course some specific things (rights to children, default rights in case of a partner's death etc) which do require a marriage. You maybe able to replicate some of these things with a legal contract, but it will be a lot of work and no in anyway efficient.