Amen to the Bolded Part.
Wonder if anyone can speak to an UNmarriage. An exclusive LTR where the couple is in appearances married but not married according to the governing body...No marriage license. Separate finances.
I can see a problem with Medical and inheritance issues if there is no license. FWIW a Civil union has all the Community property implications of a marriage.
You create a partnership or a trust if that’s the intent. In either of those structures you have great flexibility to assign assets and responsibilities. You would not be considered next of kin, but power of attorney for healthcare and other documents can cover much of that.
Marriage has its advantages in the older age group. Amongst my peers we are at an age where people get sick, they die, they require a caregiver...the can lose their faculties. At my age one deals with aging parents and so you get a front row seat to what poor end of life planning looks like. Often it ain’t pretty.
But the 50s is on the one hand like the fun of the 20s but without the risk of pregnancy and with money. That part rocks. But it’s also that you start to lose people around you. I know widows and widowers now...that’s an anomaly in the 20s. Not so at my age.
In some ways I’m actually having more fun than ever. But I also choose to be lively and surround myself with lively people. Boredom is for the boring.
Yawn.
Cheers
