Will a US state implement "lightweight marriage" by 2030?
Will a US state implement "lightweight marriage" by 2030?
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"One shouldn't have to sacrifice most of one's individual property rights to enter into a life partnership with someone for purposes of raising children, but that is the default in most states with their heavyweight version of marriage. There'd be more marriages and more fertility if they offered a lightweight version with more sensible individualistic defaults as regards property -- everything remains separate property by default, instead of everything is community property by default. Including income earned during the marriage."

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is "everything remains separate property by default" the definition of lightweight marriage here? and it has to be implemented where the resulting union matches the states current definition of marriage or could it be a separate "category" of legally defined marriage unions?

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Yes, and they can call it whatever they want so long as it's intended to be some kind of domestic partnership for raising kids.

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