Do you think the government,in it's duties,should include essential tabloid details of everyone's love lifes?

I really dont want the government to know who im in love with no

also @RyeNorth outside perhaps mandated waiting periods, there really is nothing stopping someone from getting married then divorced, then remarried year after year. So your previous point about declaring yourself married or not year after year is already a reality

and no, it should not CARE about my love life until i ask if for something

The legal procedure of separating two lives.

It's akin to contract law

It used to be much simpler, men get everything minus what the woman needs to live

You're stumbling across a very important detail

You've tripped across it multiple times in this

Then there was some case which bascially allowed women to be entitled to a portion of the wealth of the man, outside ofwhat they needed

You are not required to get married* (excepting common law,which generally only applies to people presenting as Mr. And Mrs. Anyway)

Absolutely nothing stops you from keeping a girlfriend of 10 years and breaking up whenever.

so then why is marriage even needed?

Why are contracts needed?

why do we need to lump a bunch of different stuff that are not necessarily related under 1 contract?

Because they're not

Unrelated I mean

but they are. who is legally part of my family and can make decisions on my behalf is unrelated to who is necessarily living with me, is unrelated to who it might make sense (in the spirit of the idea) for me to file taxes jointly with and unrelated to who i might have a kid with.

they can all overlap

but they don't always overlap

Who you live with DOES matter when it comes to filing taxes.

And that consent to marriage matters too

Otherwise, I could've been taxed harder when I lived in DC with someone that made around 200,000 a year.

Those taxes would've KILLED me.

Yeah I assume living together is probably the main reason to cofile taxes

Specifically, joint finances

yeah

Marriage blurs and mixes property rights, finances, offers fifth amendment protection to spouses

It's so deeply ingrained,trivializing it to the point grenade seems to want to would be seriously destabilizing.

Any recommendations on that? How is a spouse determined in legal process, in regards to 5th amendment protection?

hmmm, can you remind me how the 5th amendment relates to marriage?

Is it like, evidence found during investigation of your spouse can't be used to accuse you of a crime?

Wait, that's the 4th...

Sets out rules for indictment by grand jury and eminent domain, protects the right to due process, and prohibits self-incrimination and double jeopardy.

thats the 5th

Yeah

4th is unreasonable search and seizures, search warrants and probable cause

A spouse may not be subpoenaed by Court. The spouse is protected by the same 5th Amendment rights as the accused.

A wife is not required to testify against their husband although they may

Ah, okay

It's one of the tenant concepts of marriage, that it's a shared life.