OT - Royal Wedding

Doug Freyburger wrote in
news:[email protected]:


No, we never went to a building, signed a piece of paper or took an
oath to lovhonorancherish. We are not married. The law in Canada
states: "Marriage, for civil purposes, is the lawful union of two
persons to the exclusion of all others." No such union took place.

These lawful unions, by the way, are covered by Provincial
statutes.

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The Bible! Because all the works of science cannot equal the
wisdom of cattle-sacrificing primitives who thought every
animal species in the world lived within walking distance of
Noah's house.
 
In article ,
[email protected] says...

Must be a cultural thing; married and unmarried couples here both use
it, in the same sense as dancing, bridge etc..equals sharing fun.

Ah, but those are arrangements you two made. I'm talking about equal
rights in law to property and inheritance, which apply even where people
made no wills etc, and whether unmarried couples (without a will or a
share in property ownership) are in the same position as married if one
partner suddenly dies. For example, in Scotland, if one of a married
couple dies intestate, the widow has a legal entitlement to inherit their
property which an unmarried partner does not. (Blood relatives would take
precedence).

Janet
 
On May 3, 12:44?pm, Michel Boucher wrote:

At some point the urge to be antiestablishment for its own sake must
subside. Only the thrill of being unconventional is left, because I
take note that cohabitation in Quebec is tantamount to marriage.

I note that in the US, cohabitation -- which establishes no rights and
no responsibilities for the couple -- is largely correlated with lower
economic status and less education. Cohabiting couples also tend to be
much younger than married couples.
 
On May 3, 1:34?pm, Janet wrote:

Intestate succession is one motivator behind same sex marriage. I was
sensitized to this in the 80s, when the family of an AIDS victim
swooped down on a couple's home to take all of his belongings,
including the couple's dog. A pet would normally provide some comfort
after the loss of one's partner. Imagine having even that taken away
from you because it was not registered under your name. Further, how
many people, especially young ones, think to make a will?
 
Janet wrote in
news:[email protected]:


Actually, the analogy you are m,aking does not hold in bridge. The
partner in bridge is the person sitting opposite you with whom you
engage in a contract and try to fulfill it.


Not all of them. The insurance policies follow very strict
guidelines set down between the government and the insurance
company.


Intestacy provisions vary from province to province. However, in a
recent decision, the Alberta courts awarded the estate to a common
law spouse ahead of children and other relatives of the deceased.
As it happens, in cases of intestate decedents in Ontario, common
law spouses do not have the right, but that is why we have wills.

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The Bible! Because all the works of science cannot equal the
wisdom of cattle-sacrificing primitives who thought every
animal species in the world lived within walking distance of
Noah's house.
 
On Tue, 3 May 2011 09:48:34 -0700 (PDT), spamtrap1888
wrote:


Oh, okay... well, that was me then. My both of my kids lived with
people they married (eventually) and I was fine with that. My deal is
that if you can commit to kids, then you can commit to marriage too.

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I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.
 
sf wrote:

-snip-


I resisted the urge to go further OT when I first read this-- but
curiosity is killing me. Was there an organized effort to get
pictures of the surviving Hessians up there like Hillard's, in the
states, where he went [on his own dime] across the country in the mid
1800s photographing [what he thought were] the last 1/2 dozen
veterans? Or was he one of the few who had portraits done?

-snip-

That's a slightly different study than I've been doing.

I don't know how 'regular' it is-- but the Library of Congress'
American Memories Collection has more treasures on it than you can see
in a year or two of browsing-
http://international.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

Jim
 
On Tue, 03 May 2011 12:02:57 -0500, Michel Boucher
wrote:


Your reasoning doesn't make any sense unless you're smoking dope and
are rich enough to consider yourself a lady's man.

--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.
 
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