[proxy_user]

There are already potential loopholes.

For example, two wealthy old men with roughly equal assets could agree to marry each other’s granddaughters.

[miss marmelstein]

I've written before that gay men in western society have “adopted” their lovers for at least more than 100 years. It was always to stop the family and blood relations from seizing the assets after death. When Gertrude Stein died, her companion Alice B. Toklas was impoverished because Stein's family took the extraordinary gallery of paintings that the two of them had collected. I guess Boston marriages didn't usually involve adoptions...