From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed Jan 16 2002 - 03:20:33 MST
J. R. Molloy wrote:
> From: "Harvey Newstrom" <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com>
>
>>Why should I care if the beneficiaries are
>>married, sexual partners, an aging parent being supported, an unemployed
>>freeloader that hangs around the employee's house, or whatever?
>>
>
> If there are no children from a marriage, the courts usually don't care
> either.
> Children are what makes marriage something other than a domestic partnership.
>
Many lbgt couples I know have children, either there own from
earlier situations, or adopted or both. But that doesn't make
any difference to the courts usually. In some states they still
try to take the kids away if they find out about such situations.
- samantha
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