It looks like taxes increase and any kind of post-life planning can be done with a few legal filings rather than getting married. Is there any real benefit? It kinda seems like it’s just a way to trap people in relationships, probably traditionally, the woman.
Some of these make me sad to read because it demonstrates what at least my society lacks and what it has but uses as gimmicks, as if marriage is a cult.
I’ve seen married people forced to testify against each other all the time. The “right to remain silent” is universally thrown out the window.
The “joint adoption rights” thing is flipped around. If someone is jailed, the rights to their children is taken from both them and their spouse.
Imagine for a moment we even have inheritance taxes and rules against making arrangements for anything.
The automatic recognition of the relationship by every state and nation is a misconception. That’s how it’s supposed to work due to the Hague convention, and in regular cases it does, but it’s not enforced.