[fporretto]

While the mind reels at the idea that a woman of our times would accept being merely one of a number of wives to one man, consider this:

• The man could have many live-in girlfriends.
• All such relationships, whether sexual or not, would be entirely legal in all 50 states. No laws are being broken.
• If one of the women got pregnant, in most states the man's legal obligations to her and the baby would be the same as if he'd married her.
• If one of the women took up with another man, the man would not have any legal recourse, since there's no marital contract to enforce.
• There's now "case law" on the books in most states that has effectively revived the old common-law marital bond; if the man were to cast out one of the women, in any of those states she could sue him for "palimony" -- and if he were wealthy enough to maintain such a harem in the first place, she'd probably get it.

Looks to me as if the man is the crazy one for entertaining this arrangement. More, there is absolutely no way in which it gets worse -- for anyone -- if this one man / many women arrangement is permitted to marry!

There are surely other things that are more worth our time and attention.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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[novacation]

I've never understood the anti-poligamy laws. If a man a herd of women are crazy enough to all marry let them have at it. This is a question of seperation of church and state. It is not the governments business.The guy who got thrown in prison last year for polgamy was the sacrifical cow. If he had keep his mouth shut nothing would have happened.I see nothing immoral about it. I'm not Mormon.

[Loyalist]

The family law bar (what an Orwellian Newspeak name, since it profits from the destruction of families) will be salivating at the prospect of legalized polygamy.

Pre-nuptial agreements, co-habitation agreements, divorces, child custody suits, estates, trusts, succession--all of these and more will be even bigger money-makers for lawyers than ever because of the exponential increase of complexities that polygamy brings to marriage.

[longtermmemmory]

Palimoney is not recognized in states with no common law marriage. In most staes you CAN't be common law married.