rooter@well.UUCP (Brian Mavrogeorge) (09/15/85)
The search for legal protection takes some strange turns. Let me relate to you my own personal experience. After moving to San Francisco and buying property it became clear that there needed to be some document or legal standing of each of us with the other in order to avoid probate, medical, etc problems. We each had wills naming the other as sole beneficiary and executor but there were still uncovered issues. Our approach was for one to adopt the other and we did. At the time we then became legally father and son. That cleared up a lot of problems in the eyes of the legal system. Not long after we had a Holy Union (alternative term for marriage) in the local MCC and I legally changed my last name to match his. So what a complicated web we have to weave .... I now am married to my father who is having an incestuous relationship with me. Think about it! All of this because of the legal structure. We know of several other couples who have gone the adoption route in order to get the legal relationship. One caveat -- adoptions are not easily (if ever) reversible. One couple subsequently broke up and now are estranged yet the legal relationship of father/son continues.
rob@ptsfa.UUCP (Rob Bernardo) (09/15/85)
In article <187@well.UUCP> rooter@well.UUCP (Brian Mavrogeorge) writes: >Our approach was for one to adopt the other and we did. At >the time we then became legally father and son. That cleared up a lot >of problems in the eyes of the legal system. >... One caveat -- adoptions are >not easily (if ever) reversible. One couple subsequently broke up and now >are estranged yet the legal relationship of father/son continues. I understand also that once someone is legally adopted s/he does not automatically get inheritence from biological or other non-biological parents by fact of HAVING BEEN that parent's child. In other words, if you are adopted, you are no longer the legal child of your former parent.