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LafayetteLady -> RE: Marriage? (2/20/2010 11:35:51 PM)
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ORIGINAL: SweetDommes
We intend to marry our boys, as much for the legal reasons (like being able to put them on our insurance) as any other - but it's also a way to show them how important they are to us. Holly and I have been married (as far as we are concerned, anyway) for the last 9.5 years. To show our boys that we are as committed to them as we are to each other, yes, we intend to marry them. That will also give them the safety of inheritance if anything should happen to us, with or without a will. With no replicants of our own in the picture, that doesn't matter. We trust them to do what we want them to with respect to our niece and nephew (and a future one on the way!!), or they wouldn't be with us.
Just so you are aware, if you should die intestate (without a will), it is not a "given" that the spouse receives 100% of the deceased estate. In NJ, for instance, only 1/3 of the estate would go to the spouse, and the remainder goes to the "next of kin" which in that case, would revert back to the parents, then the siblings, etc. but NOT the spouse. I find it a bit weird, but that is the way the laws in NJ are written. So you might want to make sure that you have a will. Incidentally, while you can not legally disinherit a spouse, you can, if not legally married, dispose of your estate to whomever you choose and while many people claim that parents, siblings, etc. would contest the will, it is not an easy task and the likelihood of them winning (in cases where the people are not extremely wealthy) are pretty slim.
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