THIS IS IT. Gay Marriage Goes B4 Cali Supreme Court Today!

[Alex]

Obviously, those things would change if the official government institution went away. But all the "by marriage" inheritance rules are just shortcuts that are easily handled in the estate planning you should be doing anyway.

But yes, there'd definitely be a period of transition where things have to get figured out. Just as the invention of gay divorce is proving to have all kinds of unconsidered quirks in those places where it was just adjudicated into law (especially because the state rules don't match the federal ones).

But if it happened, in very short order there would be standard tested pre-made contracts that most people would just fill in various blanks and sign. But I have no problem with it being a hurdle. Drop the hurdle for making emotional commitments to each other but it is probably a good thing if people actually thought through the financial and long term implications of what it means to join together into those ways.


Anyway, it's all moot since it will never happen. Government does not give up authority it already has.