OK, looking at this (http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:t_E4ny0G720J:www.justitie.nl/english/Images/marriage_registered_tcm75-28560.pdf) it seems they have marriage, registered partnerships, which are mostly like marriage, and cohabitation agreements, which is a normal contract drawn up with a notary in a fairly straightforward fasion between any people living together to establish what obligations they have to each other, but is almost entirely only between each other.
Cohabitation Agreements sound like an incredably sensible idea. In fact, marriage + a cohabitation agreement *is* *nearly* a primary marriage and a secondary one, but a very secondary one. But isn't government recognition. And that's what they did here.
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Date: 2005-10-05 12:50 pm (UTC)OK, looking at this (http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:t_E4ny0G720J:www.justitie.nl/english/Images/marriage_registered_tcm75-28560.pdf) it seems they have marriage, registered partnerships, which are mostly like marriage, and cohabitation agreements, which is a normal contract drawn up with a notary in a fairly straightforward fasion between any people living together to establish what obligations they have to each other, but is almost entirely only between each other.
Cohabitation Agreements sound like an incredably sensible idea. In fact, marriage + a cohabitation agreement *is* *nearly* a primary marriage and a secondary one, but a very secondary one. But isn't government recognition. And that's what they did here.