Garden-variety marriage isn’t a contract at all, in our current system. It can be dissolved at will by either party with no “breach of contract” penalty.
The problem is that “marriage-type” contacts, including pre-nups, are not necessarily going to be upheld by the courts. Don’t like the agreement you signed? Get a lawyer and roll the dice. Maybe you’ll draw a judge and jury who agree that he/she done you wrong.
We have at this point no legal means of establishing marriage as it once was.
>>Garden-variety marriage isn’t a contract at all, in our current system. It can be dissolved at will by either party with no “breach of contract” penalty.<<
Exactly.
However, “pre-nupuals” are just that, before marriage. If there is no legal marriage, there is no “pre” anything. Take the marriage out of a deed to a home and it must be divided equally. Etc, etc. etc...
Get the government out and problem solved. We as Catholics would have a Sacrament called Matrimony, no different from before. Non-Catholic Christians have “Covenant Marriages”, no different from before. The people from “No Greater Joy” ministries preach and encourage this right now. None of their daughters are legally married.
With the bastardization of marriage, the attempts to destroy it and the vain disregard by the left, I believe we need to take the government out of it.