Reply #17: It could be a legal nightmare [View All]

[Nikia]

To be fair, we'd have to allow all kinds of combinations. This of course means that gay marriage must be legal too (I support gay marriage between two people). Would we have to have laws for all the combination? What I mean is for example a man with four wives. If it were completely heterosexual he would only be married to each of them and could divorce any of them and if he died, property would be split between the four. What if some of the wives were married to each other also? What if wife A and B were married to one another in addition to the male? Would he have to divorce both of them if he wanted to divorce one? Who would have spousal rights? What about A and B's children? Who would cover who insurance wise? How would child visitation work? It gets even more complicated if A is also married C and B is married to D. If there are legal and financial benefits to this arrangement, the meaning of marriage really might be muddled. I am not saying that two people don't sometimes get married mainly for financial or legal benefits in certain circumstances. I am just thinking that some people might operate businesses this way, just like farming families had large families to operate the farm.