“This will cause inheritance disputes.” This can’t be a reason for the continued denial of the polyamorous or polygamous freedom to marry. Again, if we're talking about children, not all polyamorous marriages will have children. But even with today’s restriction of monogamy-only for marriage, we see inheritance disputes all of the time. Widows and widowers who were married only once get in fights with their own children, who may fight with each other. Then, in some cases, there are children born outside of that marriage. There’s divorce and remarriage with or without stepchildren or making more children, there are people who were never married who have kids, there are childless people whose inheritances are disputed, "monogamous" and polyamorous people who had children with multiple people without having been married to any those partners, on and on it goes. If anything, legalizing polygamy would make it easier to sort out inheritance. There can be default rules in the law, and people can come up with their own documented, legal agreements.
There is no good reason to deny an adult, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race or religion, the right to share love, sex, kink, residence, and marriage (and any of those without the others) with any and all consenting adults without prosecution, bullying, or discrimination.
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Oh my gosh keith. Good one. I bought my property from a woman whose husband had died. They were both monogamous and had 2 kids. The kids took her to court because they wanted more $$$. My grandma married this guy. The night they got married he died. The next day his kids filed suit against my grandmother because they didnt think she deserved his property because they just got married. She eventually gave them everything because it hurt her too much. I have seen too many inheritance disputes in monogamous relationships to last a lifetime. I agree with keith, If anything, legalizing polygamy would make it easier to sort out inheritance.
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