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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem with not marrying when you are in a LTR, is that the legal rights associated with marriage are legion and ever-changing.  Currently in Maryland, there are over 400 rights granted to married couples that are not granted to cohabitants or even common-law marriages.  In the federal laws, there are over 1100.  Yes, you can pay to duplicate many of these, but even if you reviewed the laws and were current today, legislation that hasn't passed or even been proposed yet can change the picture in a matter of weeks.  By this time next year, there will be new laws and rights granted to marriages that are not granted in your legal paperwork.  When that happens, all married couples are immediately granted the legal protections, but those who are in LTR with legal paperwork would have to amend their paperwork to include those changes (if they even knew about them--many of these changes are never really publicized well).

Also be careful about how your documents are drafted.  I know of a case where a couple had such documents, but due to a slight issue in the legalese during drafting when one partner died, the family of the deceased partner was able to successfully sue and overturn the final directives.  That included having the body returned to their home state for interment and half of the property going to the family instead of to the surviving partner.  Additionally, the surviving partner had to sell the joint home to award the family half of the value of the property.  Marriage laws are designed to withstand such cases much better than privately drafted documents.[/quote]

I would love to see a list of these rights.  My BF and I have been together a long time--4 kids, joint property etc.  We've been together so long that the train screaming marry me has long left the station.  We're just an old couple now.  I have yet to see a right that I need/want and can't get through other means.  But I can clearly see the difference in our taxes from filing as 2 single adults to filing as married couple. At this point, it's the marriage penalty that prevents us from legally getting married.  There needs to be some other benefit that will make up for the higher taxes.  [/quote]

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