TheCabal
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Joined: 9/3/2005 From: Lots of different places Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: thompsonx ORIGINAL: ifmaz Everyone else is doing it so that makes it ok? It's a private relationship, why does government need to sanction it? Without government sanction how would inhearatance work? Without government sanction how would legitimacy of hiers work? Without government sanction how would resposibility for offspring work? The same way it did before government sanction... which has only existed for a little less than a century, and came about for strictly bigoted reasons. Hell, none of those things work well WITH government sanction in the first place. If you have a large, complicated estate, you NEED a will. If you have a moderately sized estate, and you don't have a will, your inheritors are going to squabble over it regardless. If you don't have any significant wealth, no one cares. In any event, a will costs less than a wedding. No one cares about 'legitimacy' anymore anyway. And YOU are always responsible for your offspring, with or without government sanction.
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