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From: rooter@well.UUCP (Brian Mavrogeorge)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Legal rights
Message-ID: <187@well.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 14-Sep-85 17:46:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.187
Posted: Sat Sep 14 17:46:06 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Sep-85 04:42:47 EDT
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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Keywords: legal rights samesex couples

The search for legal protection takes some strange turns.  Let me
relate to you my own personal experience.  After moving to San Francisco
and buying property it became clear that there needed to be some
document or legal standing of each of us with the other in order to
avoid probate, medical, etc problems.  We each had wills naming the
other as sole beneficiary and executor but there were still uncovered 
issues.  Our approach was for one to adopt the other and we did.  At
the time we then became legally father and son.  That cleared up a lot 
of problems in the eyes of the legal system.  Not long after we had a
Holy Union (alternative term for marriage) in the local MCC and I legally
changed my last name to match his.  So what a complicated web we have to
weave .... I now am married to my father who is having an incestuous
relationship with me.  Think about it!  All of this because of the legal
structure.  We know of several other couples who have gone the adoption
route in order to get the legal relationship.  One caveat -- adoptions are
not easily (if ever) reversible.  One couple subsequently broke up and now
are estranged yet the legal relationship of father/son continues.


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