Two straight Canadian men to marry each other

[andrewducker]

There's an article here about two straight men who have noticed that there's a significant tax break for married couples - and are planning to take advantage of it.

Which, I think, just goes to show, that if you allow people to do things for one reason, they'll do it for their own reasons too.  Or as William Gibson once said "The Street finds its own uses for things."

How long, one wonders, until marriage is broken down, and you get to form your own contract using a CC-style choose-your-own-license?

I would like {Insert Name Here} to (a)inherit all my worldly goods (b)have power of attorney (c)love, honour and obey me (delete as applicable)

Comments

[diotina.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of a discussion that was on my journal recently re: the terms of the ceremony themselves and how legally defensible they are. It seems to me that if the words of the ceremony are not legally binding, then it doesn't have any contractual legitimacy anyway, which confuses me a bit...which is why I tend to look at it as an entirely social/personal thing rather than a legal thing, but admittedly, the lines are very blurred, which allows these two to do this in the first place!

[andrewducker]

Well, the wording of the marriage ceremony itself is meaningless. The only important bit is signing a piece of paper saying that you're married. Once you've done that (and got it witnessed) it's the laws themselves that matter...