From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V6 #27 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Wednesday, March 7 2001 Volume 06 : Number 027 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Basia Married? ["Brian Cundieff" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 20:58:02 +0900 From: "Brian Cundieff" Subject: RE: Basia Married? From: owner-basia@smoe.org [mailto:owner-basia@smoe.org]On Behalf Of Dirk Pilat Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 4:31 AM > on 5/3/01 7:18 am, Leslie Brown at marzenie_99@yahoo.com wrote: > > > I hear this is common in the UK, being together for > > years and leaving it as that. > > Why do anything else? Well, as a good friend of mine recently discovered after her partner of several years broke up with her and left her with no savings, there are advantages to a legally binding marriage. If they had been married, she would at least have had some legal recourse. That's not the most romantic reason to be married, of course... - -Brian* > > Dirk ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V6 #27 **************************