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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (Jerry Hollombe)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: re: Re: marriage
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Date: Tue, 12-Feb-85 16:01:57 EST
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>From: sunny@sun.uucp (Sunny Kirsten)
>Subject: Re: marriage
>Message-ID: <1984@sun.uucp>

>        Anyone may enter into any contract...

This probably belongs in net.legal, but there are some restrictions.  Among
them,  the  contract must be for a legal purpose (eg: you can't contract to
commit a crime).  And who defines what's legal?  The state, of course.


>                                           ... The state need not stand in
>your way ...

The state, on the other  hand,  won't  help  any  either.  This  can  cause
problems with adoption and inheritance.  Also, the current case law is that
the divorce laws of the state  your  in  take  precedence  over  any  other
marriage  contract  (assuming  you're married according to state law, i.e.:
you got a marriage license).

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