Civil partnerships for all doesn’t alter the fact that marriage is an archaic contract in need of fundamental reform
Imagine the biggest financial contract you’ll enter into. What comes to mind? Your mortgage? Student debt? Think again. For many of us, the heftiest, not to mention the most open-ended, financial commitment we will make is marriage. The marriage contract isn’t quite “what’s mine is yours”, but almost. Once you’ve married someone, you have legal financial obligations to them even after it’s over and even if there are no children involved. Yet the vast majority of us don’t take even cursory legal advice before saying “I do”.
Forgive me if that sounds cynical. But I’m in my mid-30s and having oohed and aahed at countless dresses, and overindulged at dozens of wedding breakfasts, the novelty of nuptial romance has worn off. As someone who’s worked for 15 years and is on the property ladder, I want to know: is getting married a sensible thing to do?
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