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[imaginary friend]

Mexico City is thinking of issuing them:    http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/29/us-mexico-marriage-idUSTRE78S6TX20110929

thoughts?

[Cirque]

A fantastic idea in my opinion, but you know there would be so many people so insulted that someone would insinuate that their love wasn't permanent.

[absynth aura]

I think it's a good idea.
I mean look at this

Around half of Mexico City marriages end in divorce, usually in the first two years.

If there are no messy divorce proceedings, there will be less people with lives down the shitter after a messy divorce, there will be less time spent in a courtroom, and all that.


Plus, if you still love one another after the two years, you can have a second wedding, and another and another and another.


One other point. Say someone's sick, terminally, and they want to spend the rest of their life married. Well, they can, and when they die, the marriage contract is up, and life goes on, without the living one either remaining married, or divorcing someone who has dies.

[CottonCandy]

Minimal time would be spent in courtrooms if the divorce is amicable.

The problem is, when there's hurt feelings involved, it will get messy. And surely they still need to go to court to divide any property/possessions together, and determine custody of children if there's any involved. I doubt it will solve anything in reality, maybe even cause more hurt as instead of going through the grieving process that is related to ending of a relationship, one half of the marriage could just get up and leave at the end of 2 years saying "oh bye, our contract has ended and I don't need to give you a reason why I'm leaving".

After all, work contracts tend to be permanent (until either party wants to dissolve them) because it creates security. I know there's sometimes seasonal cover or maternity leave cover but as those people are not sure they can stay afterwards, they're likely to search another job when the contract is running out, logic would say this would happen with relationships, too.

It'd all be ok without the basic thing that when one marries, they usually share their whole life with the other person and when marriage ends, their life is torn apart.

[Pope Totalfrog]

Wouldn't it be easier just to make divorce more simple if you have been married for less than five years? My sister's husband ran off with a teenager 8 months after their wedding but she still has to go through the same divorce process as someone who stayed married for 20 years.

If you realise within a certain time frame that the person you've married isn't right then you should just be able to fill in a form and be done with it.

[CottonCandy]

Wouldn't it be easier just to make divorce more simple if you have been married for less than five years? My sister's husband ran off with a teenager 8 months after their wedding but she still has to go through the same divorce process as someone who stayed married for 20 years.

If you realise within a certain time frame that the person you've married isn't right then you should just be able to fill in a form and be done with it.

I would suppose, especially if there is no kids or valuable joint property?

[slyvia k]

Wouldn't it be easier just to make divorce more simple if you have been married for less than five years? My sister's husband ran off with a teenager 8 months after their wedding but she still has to go through the same divorce process as someone who stayed married for 20 years.

If you realise within a certain time frame that the person you've married isn't right then you should just be able to fill in a form and be done with it.

this.
or you know, just don't get married at all...

i think it's a bit silly. i mean, i believe that marriage is a contract, but then again, as a hopeless romantic, i like its idea of ''foreverness''...even though it might not actually turn out that way.
i think you should wait a bit before getting married, maybe even move in together and see if you work as a couple or not...that would be more useful than jumping in right away a 2 year marriage.