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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
I generally agree with Whatawookie, so long as I restate the caveat that the substantive rights are important, not the nomenclature, so a "civil union" works as well as a "marriage."
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I'm closer to being on-board with this line of thinking now than before- so long as civil unions get the exact same substantive legal rights and priviledges, at every level, as marriage.
I *think* we are a long ways off from this at a federal level unless a potential future court ruling finds the DOMA unconstitutional. Right?
I just got married a month ago and I am still learning all the new stuff involved legally. Like I was able to give my wife a car when hers went kaput, and she paid no taxes on it. As merely my longtime live-together girlfriend she would have shelled out around $500 (that's why they call it Taxxachusetts!) A real set of lessons will come, I think, next year at tax time.