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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (31262)	2/24/2004 7:02:48 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793861

Once the state is expected to rule on it in open court, its a public matter. Indeed. But at that point it is no more or less a public matter for married folks than unmarried or common-law married. Same process, same state involvement, more or less. Determination of custody of children is required regardless of the marital status of the parents or how they were married, if they were. Right now, it becomes a public matter when couples get married. But even if they don't, it can become a public matter later when there is custody or inheritance or property distribution or (p)allimony. Those need not be public matters, either, unless we choose to set things up that way. Much of that can be pre-established in legal contracts or wills and doesn't doesn't government involvement at all. So much of what we do is that way because that's the way we set it up or how it evolved. It doesn't have to be that way if something else is as good or better.