[Alberta's Child]

My point is that it should be treated no differently than contract law. It will actually be much more stable that way.

As someone else pointed out earlier in this thread, a contract for a car loan is legally stronger in the U.S. today than a marriage. How pathetic. So the government should treat a marriage like a car loan to make it stronger.

[fwdude]

Marriage cannot be treated like contract law because the implications of marriage are far reaching, affecting others not a party to the narrow “contract.”

Contracts ONLY affect the parties who agree to it. That doesn’t describe marriage.