[Jim Noble]

When two men or women share a household for a lifetime, they should be able to pass their assets to their "spouse" regardless of sex.

And the reason that these hypothetical homosexual lifetime partners cannot write a personal services contract and reciprocal wills under existing law, in fact under common law as it has existed for millenia, is what?

[snopercod]

The way I understand it, now they have to form a trust to pass on their assets.

Maybe you're right. It isn't that big a deal to form a trust, I think.