If you are married/common law, what was your reasoning behind getting this legal agreement?

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  1. Financially, it allows for joint filing of taxes. It also provides a robust framework for joint ownership of property.

    Socially, it symbolizes a commitment not between the two of us, but from us with the society we live in. We are a couple, we live as such, we are co-parents and we share our lives.

    Marriage is and was the right thing to do.

  2. I was leaving my hometown with no intent to look back.

    If something happened to me, I trusted her to make the medical decision I wanted, not my family

  3. Wanted childern and wanted them under my roof. Only real option for a man. Doesnt last long though.

  4. Health insurance. Aside from that we had no intentions on getting the government involved. Although our tax return was a lot better.

  6. I knew what I was getting into, and I was willing to take a chance on her. She hasn’t proven me wrong yet.

  7. We were going to buy property together. Legally separating shared assets like that is easier with divorce law. It gets a bad rap but it’s not always the divorces fault splitting assets is messy, that was often going to be true with or without marriage

    Beyond that, we were building a life together. Marriage helps recognize that. I absolutely did not get where I am without her steadfastly by my side. She deserves the legal protection of marriage and the increased SS death benefits she’ll receive if she outlives me.

    There was no guarantee I was going to be the higher earning spouse. It protected me as much as her.

    18 years, no regrets

  8. Wasn’t planning on going anywhere anyway and it made our personal lives a lot easier than doing the whole “living in sin” thing.

    Edit: did come in handy as hell financially years down the road when we needed to put her on my health insurance.

  9. Honestly – – did it out of tradition. Didn’t think anything more than that. My thoughts have certainly changed since then.

  11. Common-law. There is significantly less legal liability in my jurisdiction and situation then in a marriage if things didn’t work out down the road.

    If I was married I’d lose half of everything I have (including my pensions which are a big one), plus potentially half my condo which I solely own and had before I ever met her. In a common-law situation I don’t really lose anything at all, we just split on the stuff we jointly purchased.

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