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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because, unfortunately, our legal system has defined thousands of privileges and rights that are granted to married spouses that do not apply to cohabitating partners.  Among the rights and privileges are rights to joint property, to make legal and/or medical decisions for each other, the right to visitation in medical situations, the financial protections under the law and many thousands more.  If you choose to cohabitate, then in emergencies or unforeseen circumstances, you have no such protections.

If you don't see the importance of this, then go through the non-explicit relationship forum and just look at the threads of marriages and relationships that are breaking up and the complications that arise when they have to divide joint property, discuss custody issues, etc.[/quote]

Why is this unfortunate? How else should the government know that you wish to join property and give rights to the other person?

Marriage isn't this big awful evil. Marriage is also very important for society. Two people joined together can best care for children and the other person. Life throws you a lot of curve balls. Financially it's best to have a partner and someone to care for you through your ups and downs.[/quote]

I didn't mean that it's "unfortunate" that marriage has so many rights.  I was answering the subject question "What's so bad about living in sin?"  What I meant was that marriage has all these rights.  Unfortunately, if you live in sin instead of marrying, you don't get those protections.

For those who have been cohabitating for many years without problems, I'm glad luck has been on your side, but a couple of issues that I've seen with non-married friends are because they don't have the protections guaranteed by marriage:

- One couple was traveling out of state when they had a car accident.  One partner had to be hospitalized.  The unmarried partner was not allowed to make medical decisions and was not allowed to visit the unconscious partner.  They had to call the out-of-state parents who drove a few hours to come and make medical decisions.  Without the parents' consent, the uninjured partner was not even allowed to see the unconscious partner.

- A young unmarried couple had lived together for several years.  When one partner died, his parents came and claimed his belongings.  They claimed the majority of the shared household because he had been working and his partner had not been.  They argued and the courts upheld that he was the owner of the majority of their apartment and contents and they took it.  The partner was left not only having lost a partner of several years, but also losing most of the home furnishings and their joint life and memories.
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